Kimber Ultra Carry II
Kimber Ultra CDP II
Posted on 11/30/2011 11:14:21 AM PST by Idabilly
COEUR d'ALENE - Tim Patterson has no doubts he would have pulled the trigger.
He's glad he didn't have to.
But when a woman is being attacked by a man with a knife, Patterson says he'll do what must be done.
"If he had not stopped what he was doing," he says, his voice fading. "He came very close to dying. Really, really close."
Monday afternoon was another normal day of cooking burgers and fries and hot dogs and Philly cheesesteaks for Tim and Debbie Patterson.
Then, about 2 p.m., they heard a scream.
Tim rushed out the back door of The Big Yellow mobile kitchen at the corner of Harrison and Fourth. He looked around the Goodwill parking lot full of cars, and heard another scream. Then, he heard a woman's voice.
"Let go of me," it shrieked.
Patterson charged around a car and stopped. A man had a woman's head pulled back with one hand, and a knife to her throat with the other.
Patterson didn't hesitate.
He drew his Kimber 1911 .45 with a six-shot clip.
"Drop it, or I'll shoot you," he shouted.
(Excerpt) Read more at cdapress.com ...
WELL DONE, good buddy!!
Patterson is man’s man after my own heart.
Truer words were never spoken...
We tend to do the right thing here in northern Idaho.
“Anyone else want to ‘negotiate’?”
Good man.
I'm sure that Ed Santos appreciates the shout out to Center Target Sports.
“with a six-shot clip.”
... all my 1911s have a seven round clip.
Is this a short Kimber?
*EIGHT in the Promags but they aren’t as reliable as the Sigs.
Nice job. Too bad the guy got away though.
“In Idaho, there’s a lot of folks who carry a weapon with them, and they’re not afraid to protect their friends and family.”
That should be a common refrain in every state. Criminlas need to fear those with a CCW as much or more than the police.
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He’ll be back out on the streets in no time committing other similar crimes. He did society a dis-service by not pulling the trigger and giving him some lead love.
“Truer words were never spoken...”
I felt the same way when I read this statement.
I love his theory:
“He has had a concealed weapons permit about 10 years. He has taken handgun courses. He has been on pistol teams. He has gone through instruction at Center Target Sports in Post Falls. He’s a hunter.
He lives by what he calls the sheep dog, sheep and wolf theory.
Wolves, he said, are the bad people. Sheep are the innocent ones. Sheep dogs are law enforcement and other “good men not willing to stand by and let evil triumph.”
“In Idaho, there’s a lot of folks like myself who are not willing to stand by and let evil triumph,” he said.”
A good outcome for the lady. Both the wife and I carry and both of us have many hours of training and range plunking.
Secondly, the citizen involved took the trouble to get training (Center Target is awesome!) and did a couple of things right: de-escalated upon a tactical assessment and didn't try to hold anyone at gunpoint for later arrest. That's not his job, that's the police's job and they're pretty good at it around here, thank you. People sometimes think armed citizens are a bunch of yahoos out there playing James Bond, which is natural enough because that's what the national media are bleating all the time, but it isn't the case.
I don't doubt for a moment that this gentleman would have fired had he assessed the situation to be an impending murder. More to the point, neither did the perp. And that's how it ought to be.
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Remember, I was quoting from the article.
I think we all know the difference. ;-)
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