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Bold Lib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-06-10 04:38 PM
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Knife-Wielding Attacker Shot Dead
http://www.wreg.com/news/wreg-man-with-knife-shot-dead,0,2103052.story

FAST FACTS:

* Man with knife at Family Dollar store shot dead by customer
* Shooter had two children with him
* Witnesses say shooting was self-defense

Police say a man with a knife raced through the parking lot just after 3:00 p.m.. Witnesses say the man chased a delivery driver and others, but was killed when he tried to lunge his knife at one driver leaving the parking lot. The driver pulled a gun and killed his attacker on the spot.
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This is exactly why CCL works.
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shadowrider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-06-10 04:49 PM
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1. Exactly correct
You may never need a gun, but the one time you do could save your life.
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armueller2001 Donating Member (477 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-06-10 05:16 PM
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7. Well stated, sir.
I always have to laugh when people argue against the right to carry firearms, using the logic "I've lived here for X years and I've never felt the NEED to carry a gun." As if their experiences justify stripping the entire population of their rights.

"I've lived here for X years and I've never needed my right to trial by jury, my freedom of speech, my fire extinguisher, my seat belt, my first aid kit in my car, etc. etc."
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Fire_Medic_Dave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-06-10 04:50 PM
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2. The knife clearly emboldened the criminal.
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SteppingRazor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-06-10 04:53 PM
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3. This just shows that we need to ban knives.
;)
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Statistical Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-07-10 08:04 PM
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22. Nope. Need to ban all running and chasing.
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humpty dumpty Donating Member (55 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-06-10 04:53 PM
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4. Can we take away all of the knives, please.
Can we please outlaw all of the knives, please!

Or, we can arm all the citizens with guns, and the knives will take care of themselves.
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GreenStormCloud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-06-10 05:03 PM
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5. Will this one show up on the VPC counter? He had a CCW. N/T
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X_Digger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-06-10 05:06 PM
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6. Ooooh, lol
That right there is evil, my friend ;)
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spin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-06-10 08:57 PM
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15. Of course, they will call it another example of a murder by a CCW holder. (n/t)
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the other one Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-06-10 05:36 PM
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8. Clearly rolling up the window and not stopping were out of the question
Bang bang
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shadowrider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-06-10 05:41 PM
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9. Maybe there wasn't time
and maybe had he done that the guy with the knife would have killed someone else.

it's not bang bang

it's bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang bang (take a breath and reload if necessary) IF your life is in imminent danger.
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Bold Lib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-06-10 05:54 PM
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10. Maybe it was. Neither you nor I was there. He did the right thing in my
book. IF he could have driven away that still would have left this nut out there to harm others.
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Nailzberg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-06-10 06:47 PM
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11. Have you ever been in the queue to exit a parking lot? You can't always drive out into the street.
Locals say that parking lot was pretty busy that time of day.

3pm, schools letting out, kids around. Not to mention that the gun-owner was actually stabbed by the guy.
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Old Codger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-06-10 07:20 PM
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12. Sure the
Cowardly way out so you can go home and read about the kids that were stabbed by the lunatic with the knife, then congratulate yourself for escaping...
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GreenStormCloud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-06-10 09:29 PM
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16. Damned if we do, damed if we don't.
In another thread, a regular gun-controllers posted that CCWers were too cowardly to get involved to save others by shooting a bad guy. So here a CCWer gets involved and a gun-controller gripes that he should have driven away instead of getting shooting the bad guy.
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RamboLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-07-10 01:14 AM
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18. Witnesses say the shooter was stabbed, but appeared to be okay.
Did you not read that part? The guy who shot in self-defense was already wounded by the guy with the knife.
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shadowrider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-08-10 07:59 AM
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24. Don't forget
The shooter also had kids in the car.
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SteveM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-07-10 01:18 PM
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20. You should read what Gandhi has to say about this kind of incident.
"Taking life may be a duty... Suppose a man runs amuck and goes furiously about, sword in hand, and killing anyone that comes in his way, and no one dares to capture him alive. Anyone who despatches this lunatic will earn the gratitude of the community as a benevolent man."

Note the expression "duty." Would you like a source?
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friendly_iconoclast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-07-10 01:40 PM
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21. Of course Gandhi *would* say something like that, being a well-known militarist.
As some other wise person once said:

"It's not what you don't know, it's what you think you know that ain't so..."
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Euromutt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-08-10 06:47 AM
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23. Unfortunately, I think that "other wise person" was Ronald Reagan
He was speaking of liberals at the time.
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friendly_iconoclast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-09-10 04:19 AM
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26. Ehh, I had heard it was Will Rogers. True enough, whoever said it.
n/t
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oneshooter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-06-10 07:49 PM
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13.  Does Ten. have a Castle Doctrine? If not this fellow
may be in for a load of legal costs.

Oneshooter
Armed and Livin in Texas
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Pavulon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-06-10 08:28 PM
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14. Yea, nope he is fine.
he was well within his rights to shoot the knife to a gunfight guy.
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GreenStormCloud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-06-10 09:31 PM
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17. Just goes to show that you NEVER know when or where trouble will come.
So we who carry, do so ALL the time.
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proteus_lives Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-07-10 01:46 AM
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19. He did the right thing.
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Chulanowa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-09-10 01:47 AM
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25. My mother taught me not to run with knives
What we've got here is a case of lack of home trainin'.
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