I love a happy ending, as do most Americans. So when a masked evil-doer played the “hatchet wielding” card to intimidate the clerk into giving up the money, he wasn’t counting on a concealed carry licensee playing his own trump card in the form of ballistic therapy.
Apparently Mr. Masked hatchet-wielder never saw the original Indiana Jones movie, right?
(Washington Post) – A masked man burst into a 7-Eleven near Seattle early Sunday morning, swinging a hatchet and slicing the store clerk.
Before the masked man could seriously hurt anyone, though, a customer who was drinking his morning coffee pulled out a concealed weapon and fatally shot the attacker.
Authorities did not name the attacker or the customer, but they did hail the concealed weapon owner as a hero.
“This could have been disastrous,” King County Sheriff Sgt. Cindi West told KIRO7. “Had this guy not shot, who knows what would have happened? We might have a dead clerk right now, and instead we have a dead bad guy.”
The clerk, Kuldeep Singh, suffered minor cuts to his stomach. He, too, thanked the customer for saving his life.
“He [was] killing me,” Singh, 58, said of the hatchet-wielding attacker. Singh added that the customer was a “nice guy.”
That is the actual scene that popped in my head when I first read this story…
Lol
Steven is old enough he should have remembered that scene too. Maybe he was stuck on stupid. Maybe he was high as a kite.
He’s dead as a stone now. And that’s a good place for his sorry ass too.
That kind of thing would never happen in the real world . . . .
Uh huh.
You can prepare yourself with the mindset and tools to be able to defend yourself and other innocents from whatever life throws your way, OR you can keep trying to convince yourself that bad things don’t happen to good people.
It’s your choice (for now). Choose wisely.
DENIAL HAS NO SURVIVAL VALUE…. Thats why I am prepared for such events….
I carry a firearm, a cell phone, a flashlight and a few condoms… I am prepared for whatever life throws my way.
The bad guy is my father’s step-brother. My intent is not to redeem our name in any way. He was mentally ill, for as long as I can remember.
The bad guy is my father’s step-brother. My intent is not to redeem our name in any way. He was extremely ill, mentally for as long as I can remember. My hope is to reiterate the importance of behavioral and mental health and well-being. Counseling services are covered by insurance and they are reforming IHS services to include many behavioral health therapies. Don’t be a victim of circumstance. Get help!