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Offline Toad

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« on: July 21, 2006, 10:45:27 PM »
8 stabbed at grocery store, co-worker arrested

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ARLINGTON, Tennessee (AP) -- A knife-wielding grocery store employee attacked eight co-workers Friday, seriously injuring five before a witness pulled a gun and stopped him, police said....

....Higgins said police were pulling into the parking lot as Cope was confronting the attacker.

"We commend him," Higgins said. "But we don't encourage people to take that kind of risk. He could have been hurt."



These comments make me wonder.

Could have been hurt? Like the 8 other people this loony stabbed?

I just commend Cope. Period. The guy took the risk to prevent injury to another. Usually, we call these guys heroes and leave it at that.
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« Reply #1 on: July 21, 2006, 10:55:19 PM »
Thats why I wish IL would let people carry concealed weapons. All the tree hugging gun control crybaby sissies keep blocking it.
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« Reply #2 on: July 21, 2006, 11:17:03 PM »
I guess we need a massive 'knife amnesty' here like they had in England.  I wrote a post about the one over there that was so darn controversial, it was actually deleted!
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« Reply #3 on: July 21, 2006, 11:21:48 PM »
Heh, I fired 4 guys at my store this week. I only wish any of the punks had pulled a knife.;)
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« Reply #4 on: July 21, 2006, 11:30:31 PM »
Watch them blame the heat.

Good man pulling the gun and stopping the guy.  Looks like he showed amazing restraint too by not shooting him outright.
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« Reply #5 on: July 21, 2006, 11:50:03 PM »
If they'd ban the knives, people wouldn't need guns.
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« Reply #6 on: July 22, 2006, 12:13:46 AM »
Carry concealed anyway who's gonna know.......
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« Reply #7 on: July 22, 2006, 12:17:20 AM »
Toad,

The guy IS a hero. A hero is just someone who does the unusual, placing themselves at risk for the sake of others. You and I both know that. He did what needed to be done and got lucky enough to not have shooting the guy haunting him as well. In short, he did good.

A fine example of a real person and not a nebbish.
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« Reply #8 on: July 22, 2006, 01:03:27 AM »
Is there a waiting period for hand gun purchases in Tenn?
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« Reply #9 on: July 22, 2006, 01:51:41 AM »
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A fine example of a real person and not a nebbish.


I'm pretty sure that this is the first time that I've ever seen that word. :aok
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« Reply #10 on: July 22, 2006, 08:03:44 AM »
I heard some of the local MSM tried to ignore the gun fact, and reported the hero "tackled" the lunatic.  It came out that he didn't tackle him, he retrieved the pistol from his vehicle to stop the lunatic who was chasing a coworker around with his knife upraised in a position to stab down,
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« Reply #11 on: July 22, 2006, 08:12:45 AM »
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Is there a waiting period for hand gun purchases in Tenn?


Not any more. We have an instant background check and a "must issue" concealed carry permit clause.

You go to the gun store, and they do an instant background check on you with the TBI, takes about ten minutes and $20 or so.

Once you have your weapon, you attend and pass a manditory CCW permit training course, and you take your certificate to the driver's license station, and they issue you the permit.

There was a time though when we were quite backwards. We had a waiting period, which was however long the local sheriff decided he wanted to "look into" your background. We also had no "must issue" clause, which meant IF you had a friend in the department, IF you could show a "reason why you needed a weapon", and IF the sheriff WANTED to, you could get a permit.
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« Reply #12 on: July 22, 2006, 08:31:02 AM »
That would be at least the second time that news said that a lunatic stopped by a citizen with a gun was "tackled".    At a law school, a nut case was stopped after killing a couple of people by a guy with a gun.   Not one news story reported that the nut was stopped with a firearm weilding citizen.

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« Reply #13 on: July 22, 2006, 12:45:13 PM »
Eureka, by your logic, cars and trucks should be outlawed as well.  Drive a car into a crowd of people at speed and you could kill even MORE people.

Does personal responsibility ever show up in the equation?

Finally, I'll re-assert an old saying: "An armed population is a polite one."  The more prevalent responsible gun owners are, the higher the chance of being killed while attacking someone.  Excepting the absolute psychos (who make up a super small proportion of crime), this would discourage other would be criminals on a massive basis.
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« Reply #14 on: July 22, 2006, 12:50:05 PM »
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But then higher chance for perpetrator of crime to have gun not knife. Result of crime change from 8 wounded to 8 dead.


Eureka,

If the assailant was the type to be disuaded by a law, do you think he'd really be out there stabbing and trying to kill co workers???? I could be wrong but I believe that happens to be AGAINST THE LAW!!!!

Got news for ya, the % chance of a bad guy having a concealed weapon has absolutely no relation to the CCW permits. He's a BAD guy. They don't USE permits to carry a weapon they will use for ILLEGAL purposes.

Sheesh, I bet you think no one EVER carried a concealed weapon before there were permits.  :rolleyes:
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