VA: Black Man with a Gun Saves White Woman during Pit Bull Attack

Gun Watch ^ | 17 August, 2018 | Dean Weingarten

[marktwain]

On 6 August, 2018, Monday afternoon in Suffolk, VA. , a pit bull escaped from its owner. Michaela Clark and Jarret Young, neighbors, attempted to put the dog in a choker collar. The dog attacked Clark, a 20 year old mother.  Young owns a Ruger .45, probably a P345, from the photograph. From wavy.com:

Young, an Army veteran, says he couldn't shoot the dog at first because it was too close to Clark. When she moved her body, he says he found an open shot.

"I took the shot. The dog stopped biting. It froze and fell over," said Young. “I was just trying to make sure she didn’t die because she had a five month old baby in the house. I did what anybody would have did -- shot it.”

Clark escaped with about a dozen bite marks and puncture wounds on her back, arm and hand. She needed stitches and is now in a cast.

The incident is still under investigation. It is unclear if the dog's owner will be cited.

This situation illustrates the racial harmony that exists in many neighborhoods. The young mother, Michaela Clark, is white. The armed defender, Jarett Young, is black.

Young says he just did what anyone else would do. It is the classic line. But not everyone else is on the scene, armed, and capable of decisive action. It probably helped that Jarrett Young is an army veteran.

 The police did not take Jarrett's legally owned Ruger .45. He still had it when the reporter interviewed him for the story.

According to those who claim racism is rampant, this sort of situation is not supposed to happen.

There is another interesting angle to the story. Michaela Young owns pit bulls herself, and loves them. She says she does not blame the dog.

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[marktwain]

America has become an interracial country. Lots of Americans of all colors, races, and backgrounds.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Trying to figure out of what importance the melanin levels of the two people involved could be.

[Artemis Webb]

I can’t believe any decent conservative would write a title like that. Wtf!!

[Maverick68]

The Media want to keep us divided....

[Maverick68]

God bless this great young man!

[SJSAMPLE]

If it was a black man with the pitbull instead of a gun, you can damn well bet we’d be talking about it.

Give credit where credit is due.

[marktwain]

The point is to show the narrative of the left is false.

[maddog55]

What color was the dog? I’m sure that’ll come uip on the left and with PETA.

[Artemis Webb]

Mr Clemens it’s not coming across that way. Still, I like your version so I think I’ll shut up and go to work.

[familyop]

Yeah, Jarret Young! Good man!

"Michaela Young owns pit bulls herself, and loves them. She says she does not blame the dog."

What? Boo! And Veingarten, you meant Michaela Clark.

Jarret, leave her alone to take the consequences for the next attack. She doesn't deserve your help.

[Kartographer]

It will soon get more confusing as there will be someone come along soon with statistics and claims that it wasn’t a pit bull at all but a Chupacabra

[Hot Tabasco]

I'm getting so sick and tired of the MSM trying to promote a racial divide when there really isn't in the real world.

I play senior softball with a number of black guys and we're all just players interacting with one another. One of them is my best friend JJ and whichever team I end up on, he comes with me.

This country would be so much better if it weren't for the race baiters.........

[familyop]

I should have written yea instead of yeah.

[ThunderSleeps]

Exactly. This is a story about a couple of neighbors trying to help out another neighbor by capturing their runaway dog. Unfortunately it didn't end well - maybe the dog owners fault for how he/she raised/trained the dog, maybe the good neighbors' fault for how they approached it, maybe just fate...

The main thing it illustrates to me is that being armed gives you options and tools to help when a "normal" situation turns serious.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

“I was just trying to make sure she didn’t die because she had a five month old baby in the house. I did what anybody would have did -- shot it.”

The world would be a much better place if everyone thought like this. This young man was focused on saving a woman who had a baby in the house, not on black and white or other political issues. He very well may have saved her life and made her and her baby's future much better. And, of course, the point of the article is right on target -- guns are very useful if used responsibly. If this young man didn't have a gun, he would have gotten injured trying to help her because he'd have to physically get between her and the dog.

[ScottinVA]

Mr. Young is a hero. I don’t give two sh*ts what his race is. That headline is written with bad intentions, IMO.

[Made In The USA]

Yes Sir, think we used to call it a Melting Pot.

[JBW1949]

Very good and correct comment....

[DivineMomentsOfTruth]

Democratic politicians try to divide us by Lying about racism.. Everyone gets along in small town, USA where the vast majority of us live.

[JBW1949]

Our cul-de-sac is as diverse as anywhere...

We have El Salvador, us (I am part Cherokee), Ecuador, Philippines, New York (basically another country here in the south), Black family, White family, White family, and Vietnamese