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'Give me back my gun,' train attacker pleads with Americans
Yahoo! News / Agence France-Presse ^ | August 22, 2015

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....

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alekskarlatos; anthonysadler; france; jihad; military; spencerstone; terrorism
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo
“Muzzle Thumping” was the phrase used... Me? I’d used the butt plate.

That was my first thought too, but it is way better to use the barrel end of the rifle since that keeps the trigger away from the terrorist, and allows the person doing the thumping to switch to shooting if they have to. If you are using the butt plate to hit the terrorist if he can grab the weapon it is pointed away from him, not at him, and he might be able to recover control of it.

61 posted on 08/22/2015 7:54:05 PM PDT by freeandfreezing
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To: freeandfreezing
"And then I told that Muzzie, 'Skin that smoke wagon. Skin it and see what happens.'"
62 posted on 08/22/2015 7:59:27 PM PDT by ponygirl (An Appeal to Heaven.)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

They were not Marines. USAF and Army National Guard.


63 posted on 08/22/2015 8:00:29 PM PDT by Alas Babylon! (As we say in the Air Force, "You know you're over the target when you start getting flak!")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
“...the guard ran past”

So once again Americans defeat an enemy the French ran away from.

64 posted on 08/22/2015 8:02:03 PM PDT by fungoking (Tis a pleasure to live in the Ozarks)
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To: 2111USMC

Makes sense now why those guys let the jihadi live.


65 posted on 08/22/2015 8:10:45 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I read the article. Excellent. The humble handgun “and the will to use it” are the means of gaining an advantage and turning the tide.


66 posted on 08/22/2015 8:13:34 PM PDT by scottiemom (As a retired Texas public school teacher, I highly recommend private school)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

I hope he is still pissing blood.


67 posted on 08/22/2015 8:31:11 PM PDT by Delta 21 (Patiently waiting for the jack booted kick at my door.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

To run 10 Meters! towards a guy with a gun, no less a weapon like that, takes bravery beyond comprehension.

I think I spent the entire night reading every article and twitter comment regarding this incident.

Reason being that it has been such a dark time with this pResident that I soaked in all that I could, like a man dying of thirst and finding s well.


68 posted on 08/22/2015 8:39:16 PM PDT by dp0622
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To: Delta 21

LOL! Simple and to the point.


69 posted on 08/22/2015 9:06:31 PM PDT by AFreeBird
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To: DemforBush

Back in the day I saw an AK that had built in bayonet that swung up from under the barrel. Well, it was more of a pike I guess. Not a blade.


70 posted on 08/22/2015 9:10:13 PM PDT by AFreeBird
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To: garjog

Good job, men. You make us proud!


71 posted on 08/22/2015 9:10:47 PM PDT by BunnySlippers (I Love Bull Markets!!!)
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To: ponygirl

Thanks for that. Some of it was new to me.


72 posted on 08/22/2015 9:10:56 PM PDT by TChad
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Funny how they’re all p**sies when they start getting wailed on in a fair fight.


73 posted on 08/22/2015 9:12:08 PM PDT by Sir Gawain
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To: Swordmaker

Tres bien!


74 posted on 08/22/2015 9:14:58 PM PDT by ArmyTeach ( Videteco eos prius (See 'em first) Sculpin 191)
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To: Delta 21

sounds eerily almost like Programming...like a machine....


75 posted on 08/22/2015 9:31:53 PM PDT by Reverend Saltine (Don't say, "the administration," or "the EPA"--say "OBAMA." Give him full credit)
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To: AFreeBird
Well, it was more of a pike I guess. Not a blade.

More like a 12-14" long spike with four blood grooves. . . nasty weapon for when the magazine gets empty and you need something for that reach out a touch 'em need.

76 posted on 08/22/2015 10:13:02 PM PDT by Swordmaker ( This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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To: AFreeBird
Back in the day I saw an AK that had built in bayonet that swung up from under the barrel. Well, it was more of a pike I guess. Not a blade.


Top one has the four blood grooves, bottom only three, both nasty.

77 posted on 08/22/2015 10:17:59 PM PDT by Swordmaker ( This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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To: ArmyTeach
Here's the story headline as printed in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune

Authorities laud European train passengers for averting attack by heavily armed man.

Leftists are overtly hostile to American values.

78 posted on 08/22/2015 10:19:42 PM PDT by sparklite2 (Voting is acting white.)
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To: elcid1970

Service member’s response — “Oh, I’m sorry your jihad failed. You won’t get your virgins... But look on the bright side, you get to be one for a little bit while you rot in prison.”


79 posted on 08/22/2015 10:22:04 PM PDT by MediaMole
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To: Rodamala

Clearly a case of road rage.


80 posted on 08/22/2015 10:23:24 PM PDT by JediJones (The #1 Must-see Filibuster of the Year: TEXAS TED AND THE CONSERVATIVE CRUZ-ADE)
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