WATCH: Brave [armed] bystander SAVES lives by confronting Walmart stabbing suspect

New York Post channel at YouTube ^ | July 27, 2025

[grundle]

Dramatic video shows a heroic Walmart shopper armed with a gun confronting a knife-wielding maniac moments after he allegedly stabbed 11 people inside the Michigan store on Saturday night.

Read more at https://nypost.com/2025/07/26/us-news/mass-stabbing-at-traverse-city-michigan-walmart/

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: afton; alreadyposted; armedcitizen; banglist; bradfordgille; bradfordjamesgille; michigan; traversecity; walmart

[grundle]

Gun owner stops Wal-Mart serial stabber.

[mabarker1]

Just curious. Does this particular WallyWorld sell Firearms and Ammunition or a store that doesn’t anymore ?

[T-Bird45]

According to posts from MI residents on other FR threads on this attack, WMT no longer sells any firearms in that state.

[mabarker1]

At first watching I thought they were blurring someone’s face. The 2nd time realized it was the Firearm being blurred out...

[RummyChick]

USMC. Security training but still holding gun wrong . Some one named Michael k also helped. Probably dude with no shoes.

[mabarker1]

Thank You.🙏🇺🇸🔫

[DarrellZero]

Why then was the stabber not shot?

If this happened in Texas the guy would have had so many holes in him his mother wouldn’t have been able to make a positive ID.

[Paladin2]

Was the perp after ButtEdge?

[DoodleBob]

Watch the video. The armed citizen would have been charged with a crime if he’d shot the assailant who was backing away from the citizen.

[ansel12]

Of all the guys who stepped in, is the only one who has a gun and isn’t empty handed against the attacker, the bravest?

[Deo volente]

Have we found out anything about the stabber other than “a Michigan man”?

[DoodleBob]

Personally, I could care less about the race of the bad guy or good guy in these stories. No race has a monopoly on sin or virtue.

But I’m puzzled…Where are the usual losers on threads like this, who ask for Yogi when a crime is committed?

Maybe they’re hiding in Mom’s basement instead of typing, because the armed bystander is black.

[bella1]

Bradford J. Gille. Picture is all over the internet.

[mass55th]

I love the “Content May be Distressing” warning before you see an armed citizen stop a psycho with a knife. What’s distressing about that?

[ifinnegan]

Ask for Yogi?

[verum ago]

But I’m puzzled…Where are the usual losers on threads like this, who ask for Yogi when a crime is committed?

Maybe they’re hiding in Mom’s basement instead of typing, because the armed bystander is black.

Because, as you're implying, FreeRepublic has an actual racism problem that the mods can't quite keep up with. In fact, it's gotten noticeably worse over the last couple years.

I've seen an unpleasant number of posts invoking 'coons' and 'n*gros' for any friggin crime, regardless of the actual race of the perpetrator.

But hey, take solace friend, we'll get zotted together, I guess.



And for anyone who wants to strawman my views, let me make them completely, 100% specific:

I believe in judging individuals, individually.

And I believe that people should be judged not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

I'm not blind to the fact, yes fact, that the a very disproportionate number of violent crimes in this country are committed by blacks. But I consider that a (solvable) cultural problem, and one which the tide has already turned as blacks flock to Trump and conservatism. It's not an inherent racial issue. I know plenty of black people to whome I would entrust my life, and plenty of whites to whom I would not entrust the care of a dormant reptile.

[mass55th]

Bradford James Gille, 42 years old has multiple past arrests for criminal mischief and drug offenses and previously served 49 days in jail in Florida in 2014 for vandalism. Media is trying to portray him as a born-again Christian. "The book, which purports to be autobiographical, lays out how its author had dreams tracing his past lives back millions of years."

“Some of those New Testament dreams of mine portrayed me as Jesus Christ or God and him as Judas Iscariot,” the writer says.

In another book published in January last year, the author describes an apparent autobiographical account of his “astonishing revelation of his own identity as Jesus Christ and the spirit as Judas Iscariot.”

A freaking nut case who should be locked away in an insane asylum since he's proven multiple times he can't function normally in society.

[DoodleBob]

Yogi, as in Yogi Bear, is a thinly-veiled bigoted code for “it’s them blacks again.”

Here are a few specific example: https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4319968/posts?page=38#38 and https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4313998/posts?page=35#35 and https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4242018/posts?page=3#3.

Searching for “yogi” as a keyword fleshes this out: https://freerepublic.com/tag/yogi/index?tab=articles

And people wonder why FReepathons take so long.

[madison10]

He is white, and he is mentally ill. His last name is Gilley and he is from Ashton, Michigan, which is an hour from Traverse City. FYI: Traverse City is a resort town on Lake Michigan. Nice golf courses, and too expensive for commoners like myself to stay there.

[madison10]

The stabber is white-ish