Also, RIP Mark Alan Wilson, who knowingly went up against a man with an automatic rifle in the town square of Tyler, Texas, armed with only a .45 caliber 1911. Mister Wilson opened fire on the body-armor clad shooter unsuccessfully and paid with his life, but his actions resulted in the shooter leaving the scene and shooting no more innocent people. His actions also allowed the pinned down police to deploy and eventually catch and kill the shooter some minutes later.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Alan_Wilson
Dan McKown stopped a rampage when he confronted a shooter at the Tacoma Mall. Dan is now paralyzed, but after the confrontation, the shooter fled into a store, no more shooting, and was captured by police. Dan had his gun drawn, but then put it back as he was afraid someone might think he was the shooter. And when he turned a corner and saw the shooter, rather than pulling his gun and shooting, he pulled his gun and said something (like “Hey - stop it”)
http://xavierthoughts.blogspot.com/2005/11/hero-in-tacoma.html
Brendan “Dan” McKown was delivering a bank deposit for Excalibur Cutlery, a mall gift store, when gunshots scattered shoppers at noon in Tacoma. Dan McKown was an armed CCW holder. Witnesses state that McKown stood about 20 feet from the gunman when he faced him and drew his own pistol before being shot. Whether he spoke to the gunman is unknown. “Our understanding is that Dan drew his weapon and confronted the gunman,” his stepmother, Beverly McKown, said during a news conference Tuesday at Tacoma General Hospital. “Dan is always one who believed in protecting people and he put his life on the line for other people,” McKown’s father said. “His actions and the actions of others like him may have prevented additional casualties by confronting the aggression and possibly changing the gunman’s action early in the conflict.”