December 15, 2012

Shootings in the news - Oregon and Connecticut

We know about the horrific shooting at the Elementary school in Connecticut. We also had a shooting in Oregon earlier this month -- the goblin killed two people and injured one other. He was carrying an AR-15 (stolen) and several magazines. A crowded mall (news reports 10,000 people). There should have been a lot more fatalities and injuries. Why not? Meet Nick Meli -- from Portland television station KGW:
Clackamas man, armed, confronts mall shooter
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."
A perfect example of how a legally armed (and CCW permitted) young man brought what could have been a horrible massacre to a very fast end. He chose not to shoot (rules two and four) but his presence and his gun caused an early end to Mr. Roberts' (may he rot in Hell) swan song. Had the Headmaster or any of the Teachers at the Sandy Hook Elementary School been armed, Adam Lanza's little spree would have been cut just as short. The progressives are clamoring for "Gun Control" but those cities that have draconian laws against civilian gun ownership also have some of the highest gun injury and fatality rates in the nation. Take a look at this from the Chicago Tribune:
10 shot, including 4 teens, Friday afternoon and night
Shootings across the city Friday afternoon and night wounded at least ten people, according to Chicago police, including four teens in three separate South and West side attacks.
One half of one day in a city where private ownership of firearms is next to impossible. As our masterminds wring their hands with dismay and call for the gun laws to be ratcheted even tighter -- this will stop them now!!! These masterminds have zero real-world experience, have no knowledge of the common man and fail to see the truth before their faces. Useful idiots all of them. Posted by DaveH at December 15, 2012 7:30 PM
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