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DARBY, Pa. (AP) A psychiatrist who was grazed by gunfire from a patient at a hospital on Thursday helped stop the patient by apparently using his own weapon to shoot and wound him, but not before a caseworker was killed, authorities said.
The patient opened fire after entering the doctor's office at Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital with the caseworker, District Attorney Jack Whelan said. Witnesses reported hearing yelling before the gunshots.
Several hours after the shooting, investigators had only limited information about what happened inside the closed office but believe the psychiatrist, "from all accounts, would have acted in self-defense," Whelan said.
The doctor, who suffered a wound to his head, "faced a situation where his life was in jeopardy," Whelan said. He was expected to be interviewed by detectives late Thursday.
http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/usworld/prosecutor-doctor-fires-back-at-hospital-gunman/article_ce029cc5-b141-589c-8edc-0ce959d7e1cb.html
underpants
(182,904 posts)Well technically it wasn't a mass shooting yet but this would be the first actual example if that.
NaturalHigh
(12,778 posts)Freddie
(9,275 posts)Not really surprised some of the staff are carrying.
NaturalHigh
(12,778 posts)I know from experience that it can be a little spooky walking to your car in the middle of the night in a bad area.
Tom Rinaldo
(22,913 posts)Occasionally someone lives because they fly free of a wreck on impact rather than getting crushed as they might have been had they been wearing a seat belt . Of course that doesn't make a case for people being safer in cars with their seat belts unfastened.
Our nation is awash in guns. Of course from time to time an armed civilian may be able to successfully intervene to stop shooting deaths of innocents. That however has to be contrasted with how often people get killed by someone using their own gun against them, how many bystanders get killed during gun fights even if one participant has laudable intent, and of course the biggie: How many people get killed by guns because it is so god damn easy for for virtually anyone to arm themselves like a "well regulated militia" without regulations? How many like Trevor Marti are dead today because those like George Zimmerman walk around packing heat? To say nothing about the mass shooters with semi-automatic weapons with huge ammo clips .
Lee-Lee
(6,324 posts)themselves and others is an idea we should all back.
onehandle
(51,122 posts)We should not 'all back' NRA bullshit.
NaturalHigh
(12,778 posts)about homeowners who defended themselves from intruders with firearms. (They were ignored of course.) Would you deny them their right to self-defense?
Whether or not the intruders were armed, by the way, is irrelevant (IDK if they were or not). Shouldn't everyone have the right to feel secure in their own homes?
One last thing: do you think the people at this hospital would have been better off if this doctor hadn't shot the attacker?
linuxman
(2,337 posts)I'm glad he had the means to defend himself. God knows how many might have been killed by the gunman otherwise.
marions ghost
(19,841 posts)so now doctors have to defend themselves with guns...
You know this state of things is insane.
NaturalHigh
(12,778 posts)I'm not writing some sort of "arm all doctors" essay here either. I just don't think that the overly simplistic "guns are bad take'em away" thing is going to work.
marions ghost
(19,841 posts)of the breakdown of American society. We can probably agree on that much.
NaturalHigh
(12,778 posts)Savannahmann
(3,891 posts)I have no idea where I heard that. Some arcane thing I'm sure.