The Wash. Post writer/poster/fool tried his best to slant the story, using the word “appears” when it is obvious that a gun did stop a vicious assault which wounded the 7/11 store clerk, and which, if left unstopped, would have seen him killed.
Look at the weasely words and writing style bias in this article. It is the norm for the WP, even in its obituaries. They never left a chance to smear good people pass them by.
My son, after having come back from fighting in Iraq, was attacked in his car by a drunk Mexican (legal). The guy broke one of his side windows and just as he was winding up to deliver a punch through the window, my son pulled out his legally carried (CWP) gun and arrested the guy (held him at gunpoint for the police).
The man plead guilty in court and had to make full restitution for the damages and apologize for the assault.
If it weren’t for my son’s Army weapons training and learned restraint, there would have been one dead fool.
Most concealed weapons carriers are trained, by the military, police, NRA, or gun clubs.
It’s the drunks and criminals that I fear out on the streets.
Thank goodness for your son being armed.
After your comments I read the article. You’re right the reporter turns it into an editorial. One robber was killed and had a fake gun. Then the reporter says something like “But guns have saved lives too....” (Implying that the fake gun shoot was wrong.)
Anyway - glad your son’s story and this 7-11 story turned out okay. As liberal as the state of Washington is, the gun laws are still good - although they are working on making it harder on law-abiding citizens.
A few years ago there was some nut with a baseball bat hitting people at an outdoor mall in Seattle. One guy he knocked down carried. He shot the guy dead. Justified. As crazy as the story was I think there was one article on it and then they were done. No moaning over if he should have been shot, no interviews of the victims that were hurt (not badly hurt - more just getting knocked over), it was sort of weird as it happened in a popular mall at mid-day.
(Hmmm - maybe that’s why!)