After Indiana Mall Shooting, One Hero but No Lasting Solution

The New York Times via Yahoo ^ | July 20, 2022 | by Richard Fausset (D-NYT)

[Oldeconomybuyer]

It was an act of pluck and composure worthy of a scene in the movies. But this was real life: A heavily armed man emerged from the bathroom in a Greenwood, Indiana, shopping mall on Sunday evening and began shooting — until he was killed by an armed bystander.

Mike Wright, manager of the Luca Pizza di Roma in the mall’s food court, remembers taking shelter when the firing started and then emerging when it stopped to see the bystander behind a low-slung wall with his handgun trained on the assailant he had shot to death.

“He stood there maybe 25 or 30 feet from the body and held that pistol pointed at him until law enforcement arrived,” Wright remembered Tuesday. “The good Samaritan guy seemed poised and under control. He appeared to be very disciplined.” Jim Ison, the local police chief, went further, saying that his engagement with the gunman, who had killed three people, was “nothing short of heroic.”

But along with the horror, drama and acclaim came a roaring and rekindled controversy in a country united in revulsion over its ceaseless plague of gun violence, yet bitterly divided over a loosening of gun restrictions like the Indiana law, passed this year, that allowed the bystander, Elisjsha Dicken, 22, to carry his 9-mm handgun in the first place.

But Dicken’s act, though heroic, was also a statistical unicorn. An examination of 433 active shooter attacks in the United States between 2000 and 2021 showed that only 22 ended with a bystander shooting an attacker, according to data from the Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training Center at Texas State University.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

Here’s the reality: The cops arrived, correctly analyzed the situation and mopped up.

They did good.

[wintertime]

“...only 22 ended with a bystander shooting an attacker...”

Gee!....”Only” 22. /s

[texas booster]

Please note that any numbers from Texas State Univ should be viewed through the eyes of crazed leftist acadamia.

Especially if the NYT quoted them.

I am impressed that there is a list of 433 active shooter events in the US.

Let’s hear some more.

Maybe a Dean Weingarten discussion?

[afchief]

Great story