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Media Forced to Admit Legally Armed Man Used Pistol to Stop Mass Murder
AmmoLand ^ | September 28, 2024 | Dean Weingarten

Posted on 10/06/2024 6:07:19 AM PDT by marktwain

On August 31, 2024, in the neighborhood of Waianae, about 30 miles west of Honolulu, Hiram Silva attacked a home with a large front loader, ramming cars into the house. The Silva had a rifle and a pistol. Silva then shot and killed three women in the carport and wounded another man and a woman.  Silva had four 55-gallon fuel drums on the front-end loader and was reportedly shooting at the fuel drums.

A resident of the home retrieved a pistol, rushed to the carport, and shot and killed Silva, stopping the deadly attack before it became an inferno of burning fuel.

This is clearly a case of a legally armed person stopping a mass murder. It remains to be seen if the FBI will count it as such. It is interesting to see how the heroic act was treated in the media. As reported in by the Associated Press, in kpua.net:

Police responded to a 911 call reporting their neighbor was operating a front-end loader and using it to ram multiple cars into the home where a family gathering was taking place, then opened fire at people gathered in the carport. The gunfire hit and killed the three women. A 42-year-old man living in the house shot and killed the man with a handgun, police said.

A man and another woman were injured in addition to the women killed.

Note the emphasis in the article. The defender “shot and killed a man.” Of the murderer, “The gunfire hit and killed three women.”  The defender is depersonalized as a killer. The attacker just happened to be involved in an incident where “gunfire hit and killed three women.”

John Lott and the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) have been tracking where mass murder has been stopped by armed defenders who are not police.


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KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; banglist; crime; defense; hawaii; hi; hiramsilva; honolulu; murder; nra; secondamendment; waianae
Will the FBI add this incident to their list of where privately armed people stopped a mass murder?

It remains to be seen.

1 posted on 10/06/2024 6:07:19 AM PDT by marktwain
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2 posted on 10/06/2024 6:08:28 AM PDT by marktwain (The Republic is at risk. Resistance to the Democratic Party is Resistance to Tyranny. )
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That chart should be front page news.

I hope at least that it’s on DJT’s desk...


3 posted on 10/06/2024 6:22:35 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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Strange. This is the first I have heard of this. Why was the news media so silent in the continental US.


4 posted on 10/06/2024 6:24:21 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( Government is not reason, it is not eloquence-it is force!--G. Washington)
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I don’t recall hearing about this story until now.
Of course, I’ve been so wrapped up with the present threat called Kamala, I could have overlooked it.
Unfortunately, there are several murders like this one every year now, throughout the world. It’s our New Normal.


5 posted on 10/06/2024 7:12:47 AM PDT by lee martell
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The defender is depersonalized as a killer.

Just put it in plain English.

6 posted on 10/06/2024 8:09:56 AM PDT by bgill
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Now there’s the seed of a new meme. (At least as far as I know hasn’t been done yet)

Hurricane Kamala!

7 posted on 10/06/2024 8:35:06 AM PDT by sjmjax
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“Media Forced to Admit Legally Armed Man Used Pistol to Stop Mass Murder” ... and will then probably be charged by the DOI ... I mean DOJ as a domestic terrorist.


8 posted on 10/06/2024 9:32:44 AM PDT by antidemoncrat
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“Journalists” are trained to slant, omit, emphasize, de-emphasize and LIE if they have to.


9 posted on 10/06/2024 10:35:35 AM PDT by subterfuge (I'm a pure-blood!)
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