Posted on 07/01/2016 1:06:01 PM PDT by VitacoreVision
The shooting this week in a Lyman, South Carolina, nightclub will not receive the international publicity that the recent horrific Orlando nightclub murders have merited. This is understandable, considering the death toll in Orlando was 49, while no one was killed in the South Carolina shooting.
But perhaps there should be greater media attention to what occurred in South Carolina, because a wider knowledge of that event might prevent a future Orlando-like massacre.
According to deputies of the Spartanburg County sheriff’s department, 32-year-old Jody Ray Thompson pulled a gun just outside the Playoffz nightclub and fired several shots toward a crowd.
Lt. Kevin Bobo explained what happened. "His rounds struck three victims, and almost struck a fourth victim, who in self-defense, pulled his own weapon and fired, striking Thompson in the leg." The man who shot Thompson held a valid permit to carry a concealed weapon. As such, he will face no charges.
(Excerpt) Read more at thenewamerican.com ...
The national News media has breathlessly reported this over and over all over the country.......Oh, wait.......Never mind...
Snopes is saying the SC shooting didn’t happen. Anyone have concrete evidence?
Only what I read here....
is two ugly leftist ideologues who should not be trusted on any topic.
“This characterization of the incident as a “mass shooting in progress” stopped by a legally armed citizen with a carry permit is problematic, though, because accounts of the altercation don’t indicate the gunman intended to kill multiple victims (or anyone at all). According to Columbia, South Carolina, television station WIS, the suspect got into an argument with another club patron and afterwards pulled out a gun and started shooting towards a crowd gathered in front of the club, striking and injuring three people:”
Well, since nobody got killed it’s not a mass shooting, right? Snopes is playing with definitions and semantics. SURE he was “firing into a crowd” but that does not mean he intended to HURT the people he was shooting at, and if he had not been stopped there is no PROOF that “four or more” people would have been KILLED.
These guys have spin and twist down to a science.
Here is the report. http://www.wistv.com/story/32308903/deputies-man-opened-fire-wounded-several-at-nightclub
Concealed carrier takes down shooter at South Carolina nightclub
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jun/30/concealed-carrier-takes-down-shooter-at-south-caro/
Gunman Opens Fire Into Crowd at Another Nightclub — This Might Be Why the Incident Isn’t Leading the News
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2016/06/30/gunman-opens-fire-into-crowd-at-another-nightclub-this-might-be-why-the-incident-isnt-leading-the-news/
Concealed Carry Holder STOPPED A NIGHTCLUB SHOOTING And The Media Ignored It
http://dailycaller.com/2016/06/30/concealed-carry-holder-stopped-a-nightclub-shooting-and-the-media-ignored-it/
Just one of those incidents where a good guy with a gun stops a bag guy that the MSM/Mad Mommies say never happens.
My Magic Eight Ball says it did, and frankly my Magic Eight Ball has more credibility than Snopes.
PS Other articles in comments above verify that it did.
And because the perp wasn’t highly motivated by muslim hate.
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