He regrets this work-place violence -- unrelated, of course, to the peaceful religion of Isalm.
Posted on 08/22/2015 6:10:12 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Paris (AFP) - A gunman tackled by young Americans on a train between Amsterdam and Paris pleaded with them to hand back his Kalashnikov after they overpowered him, one of the group said.
"Everything happened very fast," Anthony Sadler, a student travelling with friends Alek Skarlatos and Spencer Stone, both members of the US military, told France's BFMTV.
"I didn't realise what was happening until I saw a guard run past. I looked back and saw a guy enter with a Kalashnikov. My friends and I got down and then I said 'Let's get him'," said Skarlatos, a 22-year-old member of the National Guard in Oregon, who has recently returned from service in Afghanistan.
"We didn't know if the gun wasn't working or anything like that. Spencer just ran anyway and if anyone had gotten shot, it would have been Spencer and we're just very lucky that nobody got killed," he added in quotes shown on the BBC.
Stone tackled the gunman but was cut with a knife....
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“Muzzle Thumping” was the phrase used.
Not exactly sure what that entails. Though I can imagine.
Me? I’d used the butt plate.
But, what do I know?
;-)
I'm so proud of these three guys. And their families must be just bursting with pride and gratitude they are okay.
Would they had killed him.
These three young men make me feel a lot better about America and Americans.
I guess there is no 2nd amendment in that country,
I wonder how readily they will take our guns away
Never?
What Good Can a Handgun Do Against an Army.....?
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He regrets this work-place violence -- unrelated, of course, to the peaceful religion of Isalm.
I love that the French were calling Spencer Stone the "happy giant."
Europe should enact gun control laws. That way this type of thing wouldn’t happen.
If only they had plugged him ten times with his weapon. That would have been justice.
LOL
Butt first, twenty or thirty times to the face...
Just like he HAD to recognize the 70th anniversary of the end of WW II? Oh, wait, he DIDN’T do that...he released his favorite tunes list instead. He thumbs his nose at convention and historic protocol...those things are leftover artifacts of the privileged white patriarchy he is determined to smash.
One of the American soldiers who restrained the attacker on the train said that it appeared his weapon was faulty.
Alek Skarlatos, 22, said: "If that guy's weapon would have been functioning properly I don't even want to think about how it would have went." He also said that the attacker did not seem to know how to handle the gun properly.
Mr Skarlatos told Sky News: "I grabbed the handgun, got the handgun away from the guy and threw it. Then I grabbed the AK which was at his feet and started muzzle-thumping him in the head with it.
"Everybody just started beating on the guy while Spencer held the choke hold, until he went unconscious at that point. People started to restrain him." Mr Skarlatos - who said that everyone was just reacting on "adrenaline" - picked up the AK-47 and checked the other cars to ensure there was not another gunman.
Mr Skarlatos returned to car 12, where it all started, cleared the weapons and put them in a pile.
He told Sky News: "I noticed when I removed the round in the chamber of the AK that the primer had been struck, which means he pulled the trigger on the AK.
"The primer was just faulty, so the gun did not go off, luckily, and he did not know how to fix it, which was also very lucky.
"When I cleared the handgun I also noticed that there was no magazine in it - so he had either dropped it accidentally or did not load it properly. He was only able to get what appeared to be one shot off with the handgun."
Once again, Americans save the feeble French.
Next time, let ‘em go to the dogs.
OK, how about Whack...Whack...Whack...and THEN Bang...Bang...Bang.....you know, a little suffering at first :-)
Yes, that works!
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