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AL: Customer Defends Self and Others from Threatened Mass Murder
Gun Watch ^
| 18 January, 2014
| Dean Weingarten
Posted on 01/17/2014 9:44:34 AM PST by marktwain
An armed aggressor herding people into a back room is always a bad sign. It often precedes a mass murder. From the selmatimesjournal.com:
Dallas County Sheriff Harris Huffman said the incident appeared to be a case of self-defense and no one has been arrested in connection with the shooting Thursday afternoon.
The incident occurred when Dallas County resident Kevin Mclaughlin entered Dollar General reportedly waving a pistol in the air, Huffman said. Mclaughlin then ushered a group of people inside the store into a break room.
One customer showed good situational awareness, and was able to escape out the back door:
Orrville resident Deforest James said he was in the Dollar General moments before the shooting occurred. James exited the building shortly after Mclaughlin waved the pistol and told customers not to move.
He said he was looking for three bad mother-ers and then I ran out and I busted out through the back door, James said.
No one can be certain how the incident would have turned out if customer Marlo Ellis had not been there and been armed, but the indications are that he prevented some very bad things from happening.
Houses act as giant sound suppressors. People outside seldom hear gun shots fired inside, or interpret what they hear correctly. The sound is almost completely muted from an inside room.
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Very likely a mass murder was prevented.
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posted on
01/17/2014 9:44:34 AM PST
by
marktwain
To: marktwain
He said he was looking for three bad mother-ers... I'd say he found at least one...
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posted on
01/17/2014 9:50:55 AM PST
by
Errant
(Surround yourself with intelligent and industrious people who help and support each other.)
To: marktwain
(Sarc) Don’t let the WEAPONPHOBES see this one! (It doesn’t fit their story-line.)
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posted on
01/17/2014 9:51:26 AM PST
by
Repent and Believe
(Promote good. Tolerate the harmless. Let evil be crushed.)
To: marktwain
What the Hell is with this story? Is this an excerpt? I read that some guy ran out a back door. How did that stop a shooting?
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posted on
01/17/2014 9:53:17 AM PST
by
rarestia
(It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
To: rarestia
Click the link near the top for the full story.
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posted on
01/17/2014 9:58:05 AM PST
by
SaxxonWoods
(....Let It Burn...)
To: marktwain
Somebody call Harvey Stupidstein.
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posted on
01/17/2014 10:03:25 AM PST
by
headstamp 2
(What would Scooby do?)
To: SaxxonWoods; rarestia
Oh, there it is. You have to click the link at the link. Then, once linked to the source, you can click on the link to the article.
I found it but have carpel tunnel syndrome now.
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posted on
01/17/2014 10:04:18 AM PST
by
Tenacious 1
(Liberals can afford for things to go well, to work, for folks to be happy. They'd be out of work.)
To: rarestia
Poorly written for sure. But They list two different names as to who ran out the door and who was armed.
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posted on
01/17/2014 10:05:23 AM PST
by
Revel
To: Tenacious 1
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posted on
01/17/2014 10:09:50 AM PST
by
Springfield Reformer
(Winston Churchill: No Peace Till Victory!)
To: rarestia; marktwain
RE :”
What the Hell is with this story? Is this an excerpt? I read that some guy ran out a back door. How did that stop a shooting?” Exactly, it doesn't even say that he called the police.
It just says he ran away. That only saves one persons life, his own.
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posted on
01/17/2014 10:10:27 AM PST
by
sickoflibs
(Obama : 'If you like your Doctor you can keep him, PERIOD! Don't believe the GOPs warnings')
To: Repent and Believe
WEAPONPHOBES
Medical terms that is a hoplophobic
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posted on
01/17/2014 10:10:52 AM PST
by
JSteff
(It was ALL about SCOTUS.. We are DOOMED for several generations. . Who cares? Dem's did and voted!)
To: sickoflibs
Exactly, it doesn't even say that he called the police. It just says he ran away. That only saves one persons life, his own. Yea. That was pretty bad, made even worse by all the energy it took to find the actual source article.
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posted on
01/17/2014 10:21:41 AM PST
by
Tenacious 1
(Liberals can afford for things to go well, to work, for folks to be happy. They'd be out of work.)
To: sickoflibs
There was a customer who (I deduce here) followed the crowd into the break room and shot the perp. One bullet for the kill shot. Must’ve been a good center mass strike. Or else a head shot. The story doesn’t say.
To: marktwain
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posted on
01/17/2014 10:27:02 AM PST
by
TheCPA
To: SaxxonWoods; rarestia
What do you mean clink on the link? This was not excerpted. The “story” is completely incoherent!
Garbage post.
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posted on
01/17/2014 10:27:19 AM PST
by
Obadiah
(I Like Ted.)
To: Tenacious 1
RE :”
Yea. That was pretty bad, made even worse by all the energy it took to find the actual source article. “ For that particular article I wasn't interested enough to do that.
When I post excerpted material I always try to post the text of the key points, after all many freepers here don't even seem to read that, they seem to reply to titles.
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posted on
01/17/2014 10:28:01 AM PST
by
sickoflibs
(Obama : 'If you like your Doctor you can keep him, PERIOD! Don't believe the GOPs warnings')
To: sickoflibs
...after all many freepers here don't even seem to read that, they seem to reply to titles. Not this FReeper. I learned my lesson many years ago, after a few kicks in the teeth for Premature Pontification.
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posted on
01/17/2014 10:35:23 AM PST
by
Tenacious 1
(Liberals can afford for things to go well, to work, for folks to be happy. They'd be out of work.)
To: Tenacious 1; rarestia; marktwain
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posted on
01/17/2014 10:44:45 AM PST
by
sickoflibs
(Obama : 'If you like your Doctor you can keep him, PERIOD! Don't believe the GOPs warnings')
To: sickoflibs
after all many freepers here don't even seem to read that, they seem to reply to titles pff - reading is for rich folks.
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posted on
01/17/2014 10:47:53 AM PST
by
Repeat Offender
(What good are conservative principles if we don't stand by them?)
To: Tenacious 1
It’s a good thing you’re a Tenacious 1.
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posted on
01/17/2014 10:50:37 AM PST
by
Cyber Liberty
(H.L. Mencken: "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.")
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