Saturday, July 22, 2006

Guns Save Lives

This is what happens when honest citizens are allowed their Constitutional right to keep and bear arms.

MEMPHIS, Tennessee (AP) -- A knife-wielding grocery store employee attacked eight co-workers, seriously injuring four before a witness pulled a gun and stopped him, police said. Elartrice Ingram, 21, was charged Friday with nine counts of attempted first-degree murder, police said. The attack apparently stemmed from a work dispute, investigators said... Ingram, chasing one victim into the store's parking lot, was subdued by Chris Cope, manager of a financial services office in the same small shopping center, Memphis Police Sgt. Vince Higgins said. Cope said he grabbed a 9mm semiautomatic pistol from his pickup truck when he saw the attacker chasing the victim "like something in a serial killer movie." "When he turned around and saw my pistol, he threw the knife away, put his hands up and got on the ground," Cope told The Associated Press. "He saw my gun and that was pretty much it."
The one thread that runs through all mass attacks is that nobody shoots back. Yet, liberals have a blind spot that won't let them see the truth about the basic human right of self-defense. For some irrational reason, they're perfectly ok with only the government having guns.

2 comments:

Trader Rick said...

This is not an isolated incident. Each month the NRA magazines publish a page called the "Armed Citizen", that highlights such occurances. Unfortunately for the vilent offenders, many of them end up shot, but their victims (many elderly) survive.

Lone Ranger said...

That's the first page I turn to whenever I get my copy of "America's 1st Freedom." I've been thinking about posting one of those stories every day.

There are supposedly about two million incidents a year of guns preventing crimes. Most of the time, all it takes is flashing the gun to send the miscreants on their way.