CCW Permit Holder Stops Massacre, by simply having a handgun.
Will we see this all over the news….no way.
Spread the message far and wide.
Do read on…
Clackamas man, armed, confronts mall shooter
PORTLAND — Nick Meli is emotionally drained. The 22-year-old was at Clackamas Town Center with a friend and her baby when a masked man opened fire.
“I heard three shots and turned and looked at Casey and said, ‘are you serious?,’” he said.
The friend and baby hit the floor. Meli, who has a concealed carry permit, positioned himself behind a pillar.
“He was working on his rifle,” said Meli. ”He kept pulling the charging handle and hitting the side.”
The break in gunfire allowed Meli to pull out his own gun, but he never took his eyes off the shooter.
“As I was going down to pull, I saw someone in the back of the Charlotte move, and I knew if I fired and missed, I could hit them,” he said.
Meli took cover inside a nearby store. He never pulled the trigger. He stands by that decision.
“I’m not beating myself up cause I didn’t shoot him,” said Meli. “I know after he saw me, I think the last shot he fired was the one he used on himself.”
The gunman was dead, but not before taking two innocent lives with him and taking the innocence of everyone else.
“I don’t ever want to see anyone that way ever,” said Meli. “It just bothers me.”
This doesn’t fit the narrative that we “need” more gun control, so it will get no play from the media. The media have an agenda, and that agenda is the same as that of the Democrat party. Make no mistake about it. The Democrats want more gun control, much more, but they are afraid of the response that they will get from the voters if they try to push it through, especially in the face of a Republican House. I don’t think we’ll see anything serious out of the Senate, but I do worry about what Obama will do by executive order.
LEts have a thread of links to the CCW people who saved people. There was that church in Utah. I know there is a site out there but can’t find it. What the guy needed to do from behind the pillar was yell loudly that he was the police and tell the shooter to put his gun down. If he advances shoot him.
A loud forceful male voice will make a thug take notice.
One thing about this school shooting is that there were no males around? Just kids and women?
Even though these situations outnumber the ones where no one is armed, we still hear only about the times it all goes wrong.
Why, one is the inherent bias in the media toward stories that portray firearms in a positive fashion.
Two, is because of the old adage, if it bleeds it leads. The press is designed to push the more dramatic storyline. (Unless of course it involves a decision made by a dem president.)
http://www.akdart.com/gun3.html where guns saved lives.
darkwords wrote:
That was the point I tried to make to Ferb yesterday but it ran off.
I posted a group of links from about 2 minutes of searching where someone with a gun stopped a school shooting.
All you do by posting “gun free zones” is tell the crazies that they won’t be stopped.
darkwords wrote:
Well, that is the population at most elementary schools, women and children.
A male figure is a rare sight to see unless there is a special event happening.
Former Spook
Concepts that don’t work.
Question re gun control: Part of the 2nd Amendment reads ‘A well regulated militia…’
How would you define ‘well regulated’?
Should there be mandatory training classes, for example?
I’ve been hearing the lib argument that “maybe 200 years ago you could rebel against a tyrannical gov’t with the weapons of the day but that bs doesn’t hold water in 2012″ etc. I never gave it much thought ’cause it wasn’t a game changer for me anyhow -- we have the right period. But, should ya wanna take on one of these libs, I read a good come back comment the other day:
Russia had to give up on the Taliban After a decade of battling the Taliban the Russians had to throw in the towel and, like it or not, they’ve managed to give us a hard time too. Maybe their not a ‘well regulated militia’ but considering what they’ve had to work with I’d say its still possible to give gov’t. troops a run for the money.
Just another round of ammo (so to speak) for those who will have to mingle with lib relatives and their ‘significant others’ over the holidays.
Beyond pimf -- no idea what happened here…. anyhow:
After a decade of fighting the Taliban, Russia had to throw in the towel. And, like it or not, they’ve managed to give us a hard time too.
Maybe they’re not a ‘well regulated militia’ but considering what they’ve had to work with, I’d say its still possible to give gov’t. troops a run for the money.
yeah, and nuclear weapons stop wars.
So everybody(and every country) should be allowed to have nukes
@ ferb123:
If you are too stupid to tell the difference between a nuclear weapon and a rifle, then there isn’;t much point wasting time with you, is there?
This is forward progress:
Armed teachers make a lot of sense. If you don’t trust the teacher to have a gun around your kids, why do you trust the teacher around your kids?
@ Iron Fist:
The FFDO program with airline pilots has been pretty successful, I think it could be expanded to teachers and/or administrators.
@ MacDuff:
Yeah, it wuld seem to b me to be a no-brainer. You can’t have cops stationed all over the schools, but you have a teacher in every room. We train 18 year-olds to carry machineguns in warzones, and they don’t go around killing unauthorized locals. The fear Librals have of guns amounts to a phobia born of ignorance. Just as the cure to abuses of free speech is :more speech, the cure to abuses of arms is more arms. It would be preferable that all potential victims be armed, within reason. No, David Frum, I am not advocating that five year olds be armed, but as I’ve been pointing out, if you don’t trust your kid’s teacher to carry a gun around your kids, you probably simply shouldn’t trust the teacher around your kids. We have certain minimal standards for law enforcement officers. I don’t see any reason to lower those standards for teachers.
@ 13 ferb123: Peace through strength, until every one is a metrosexual.