Posted on 09/20/2016 6:49:44 PM PDT by artichokegrower
Gun rights advocates have a new hero.
Jason Falconer, a part-time police officer who killed an attacker wielding a knife Saturday at the Crossroads Center mall in St. Cloud, Minn., earned high praise from local officials as well as his own trending hashtag on Twitter.
“He was put in unfortunate circumstances. I believe there was divine intervention,” Corey Nellis, the police chief in the neighboring city of Avon, said at a news conference Monday. “I think he was the person that needed to be there to prevent it from being worse than it was.”
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He is a competitive shooter. Jihadi picked the wrong guy to be doing jihad in front of.
And a cop and a range owner and a trainer of LEO’s and a former police chief.
Practice, practice, practice.
Thank God that there was someone there who had a gun and knew how to use it well.
The left will find an anti gun angle in there somewhere. “He never got a trial” etc.
Too bad there weren't a hundred.
There could be but the Government does not want that. To the Governmental Officials, controlling you and me is more important to them than our lives are.
Good guy will be assaulted with hate from the MSM for attacking the poor mussie immigrant.
He lucked out. His gun could just as well killed 10-12 bystanders. /s
” Jihadi picked the wrong guy to be doing jihad in front of.”
Need to post the picture of Harrison Ford shooting the bad guy with a knife in the first Indiana Jones movie.
Of course there are a bunch of weiner comments at the website. I can’t handle any more girlie men at this point in my life.
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