There are sickos everywhere.

When they wish to go on their rampage to hurt innocents, they prefer gun-free locations.

Yes, lunatics and criminals see those “GUN FREE” signs as a dinner bell.

That’s what happened in Morton, Illinois – a town smack dab in the middle of Middle America.  “Flyover Country” if you will.   If you think nothing bad every happens in Middle America, guess again.

19-year-old Dustin Brown – a social misfit out on bail for kiddie porn charges earlier this year – stormed into the Morton Public Library last Tuesday.  He shouted that he was there to kill some people as he found a room full of kids aged 7-13, along with a few mothers, while holding two fixed blade knives.

The pervert Dustin was looking for fame and immortality as another spree killer in America.  He admitted he was seeking children to kill.

His plan was thwarted when a real man – an elderly Army veteran named James Vernon – stood up and took action.

See, a real man knows how to fight and has the courage to step up and saves lives, unlike the NY Times’ idea of a modern man that cries a lot and sometimes wants to be the “little spoon” with his wife.

The chess club leader and retired Caterpillar worker (and Army vet) asked Dustin what is problem was and the loser said, “my life sucks”.  He asked other questions while the armed punk backed up from the menacing retiree.

See, Dustin was a coward.  He was a big coward.

Vernon managed to get himself between the would-be killer and the door and motioned for the others to flee.

The kids and women alike ran and then the fight was on.  Vernon was badly cut, but he managed to wrest the knives away from the bad guy, thanks to training he remembered from fifty years before, and hold him for police.

God bless James Vernon.

He’s a real man – a sheepdog – who wasn’t going to let a social misfit wolf slaughter this flock.

Elderly vet saves 16 children from knife attack

(Pekin Times) – Sixteen children and a handful of their mothers found the only door to their library room blocked by a man who held hunting knives in each hand as he screamed, “I’m going to kill some people!”

Dustin Brown, 19, specifically wanted to kill children Tuesday at Morton Public Library, he said after the would-be victims escaped safely.

…Blood was shed, but mostly Vernon’s, because the retired chess club teacher kept his cool, gave his class an avenue of flight and remembered the knife-fight training the Army gave him five decades ago.

Vernon, 75, won his “90 seconds of combat” with Brown, “but I felt like I lost the war,” he chuckled. He cut two arteries and a tendon on Vernon’s left hand as Vernon blocked Brown’s knife swipe.

“I failed my mission to kill everyone,” Brown told police, according to a prosecutor’s court affidavit that accompanied formal charges Thursday that included attempted murder.

Yeah, you sad sack of fecal matter.  You failed in life.  Go drown yourself in a puddle, will you?

Brown, of 300 Fernwood St., said he’d been planning to kill people and then himself for two weeks, the affidavit stated. With two knives in his backpack, their handles wrapped in tape for better grip, he entered the library at about 3:25 p.m.

The roomful of children enjoying a home school chess club meeting drew his focus and anger, he said. Brown, free on bond while facing prosecution charges of possessing child pornography, said he wanted the children to die.

Vernon, who retired in 2002 from his information technology career at Caterpillar Inc., is recovering at his Morton home from surgery for his wounds.

He recalled Thursday how he thwarted Brown’s alleged plans for mass murder and suicide.

“He actually ran into the room yelling, ‘I’m going to kill some people!’ He was holding two knives” that Vernon described as “hunting types” with “fixed blades about 5 inches” long.

The children, ages 7 to 13, scurried under tables in the library’s Hauter Conference Room as Vernon stood before Brown.

“I tried to talk to him. I tried to settle him down,” he said. “I didn’t, but I did deflect his attention” from the children “and calmed him a bit. I asked him if he was from Morton, did he go to high school. I asked what his problem was. He said his life sucks. That’s a quote.”

As Vernon spoke, he stepped closer to Brown. “He backed away when I’d get closer.” With a few steps, Vernon put himself between Brown and the room’s door, with the children under the tables behind him.

“I gave them the cue to get the heck out of there, and, boy, they did that! Quick, like rabbits,” Vernon said.

“There were no more potential victims in the room. He focused on me. There was no more talking,” but Vernon watched what Brown did with his knives and learned.

“I knew he was right-handed. He was whittling on his left arm” with the one in that hand, “making small cuts. He was trying to scare me, and he did.” But if Brown attacked, “I knew which hand it was coming from.”

Brown slashed from the right towards Vernon, who blocked the blade with his left hand. “I should have hit his wrist. That’s how you’re trained, but it’s been half a century,” he said.

That’s okay, Mr. Vernon.  You’re allowed a pass on that.

“First rule of combat: Be fast and vigorous,” said Vernon, who was trained but never served in combat. Vernon’s medium build was enough to overcome his smaller attacker.

Indeed, be violent enough, fast enough.

And take your concealed carry piece with you when you leave your home!