The Unsung Hero

It was five years ago yestarday that Jacob Roberts – a loser and delusional narcissist – walked into the Clackamas Mall in Portland Oregon with an AR15, a pistol and a couple hundred rounds of ammunition, apparently intent on giving his pathetic excuse of a life a big finish.

He murdered two Christmas shoppers – Cindy Yuille and Steven Forsythe – and was by all accounts intent on murdering many more; the load of ammo was a dead giveaway.

Then, Nick Meli – an off-duty security guard with a carry permit and a concealed Glock – drew down on Roberts.

The media’s and law enforcement’s accounts vary from this point – a point that the media  holds against the notion that Meli is a hero.  But by all rational accounts, Roberts saw the gun aimed at him, and did exactly what the FBI, in its study of spree killers after Columbine, said he’d do; delusional narcissists like Roberts (as opposed to terrorists like Omar Matteen) either run away, give up, or kill themselves rather than face the consequences.

Which is what Jacob Roberts did; he retreated into a Gap store and, shortly, shot himself.

The media and Big Gun Control has done its best over the years to bury this story.  Meli himself has been very reticent about being in the public eye.

But it’s the position of this blog that Meli was, and is, a hero who saved many lives that day, and kept Clackamas Mall off the list of infamy that Sandy Hook school would join three days later.

Other than different denouements, the episodes had a lot in common; mentally-ill losers who planned to leave this mortal coil in a blaze of demented, twisted “glory”; buildings full of captive victims; and the big one – both were “gun free zones”.  Clackamas was posted (but, like the Mall of America, those postings were of dubious legal force, although I don’t plan on being the test case); Sandy Hook, being a school, was “gun free” by federal and state law, backed up by potential felony charges.

Which did those kids a lot of good, didn’t it?

Anyway – a salute.

10 thoughts on “The Unsung Hero

  1. “Jacob Roberts – a loser and delusional narcissist and [mentally-ill loser]”

    Is this the same Jacob Roberts that purchased his AR-15 as a lawful gun owner?

  2. Didn’t Saipov legally rent a truck?

    See eTASS, that is how you use equivalence. Not that you care or can learn from your bettors. Keep trolling cupcake.

  3. No, Emery, that would be Jacob Roberts who stole the gun, actually. You do know that it’s possible to look these things up, right?

  4. bb, but that is not what his talking points say! He cannot stray from the script. Ever! Regardless of facts. Watch him deflecf, misdirect and lie, but not to admit he was wrong. And eTASS is always wrong. Always. And always ready to push the lies of his overlords. Always. Without fail.

  5. As Mitch said a couple of posts back, there was no need to invent Avery. It is but a summary of troll behavior on constant display here.

  6. Agreed that CNN also needs to learn that it’s possible to look these things up. I am getting a kick out of the fact that they’ve missed a fair number of easy facts lately and are earning the rightful mockery of sensible people.

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