A horrific rampage in Oklahoma, involving a recent convert to Islam beheading one woman and stabbing another, was ended…<\/p>\n
…by a citizen with a carry permit<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n More on the show tomorrow, and on SITD on Monday.<\/p>\n UPDATE:\u00a0 While some media are calling the shooter\/hero an “off duty cop” – which implies he was a policeman, with police training, who just happens to also work as a Chief Operating Officer of a food plant, which is enterprising indeed, and maybe even happens in small rural towns in the west – the police report indicates he was in fact a reserve <\/em><\/a>deputy<\/a>.\u00a0 Which in most departments means he helps with parades, and doesn’t have permission to carry weapons, or weapons training,\u00a0any different than a regular citizen.\u00a0 The Oklahoma County Sheriff’s office may be different – but I’m gonna guess they’re not.<\/p>\n Time will tell.\u00a0 But experience shows us that time will likely tell us that it was a law-abiding citizen with little special training, but a strong desire to keep himself and his co-workers alive.\u00a0<\/p>\n Someone tell Michael Bloomberg.\u00a0 And Heather Martens.<\/p>\n UPDATE 2:\u00a0 While the fella was a recent convert to Islam, I’m gonna blame “crazy”, rather than “Moslem”, if that’s OK with y’all.<\/p>\n UPDATE 3:\u00a0 A check of the Oklahoma County, Oklahoma sheriff’s department website indicates that their reserve deputies do <\/em>recieve “basic law enforcement training”, without going into detail.\u00a0 Does this mean they carry firearms, just like regular patrol deputies?\u00a0 I’ll find out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A horrific rampage in Oklahoma, involving a recent convert to Islam beheading one woman and stabbing another, was ended… …by a citizen with a carry permit.\u00a0 More on the show tomorrow, and on SITD on Monday. UPDATE:\u00a0 While some media are calling the shooter\/hero an “off duty cop” – which implies he was a policeman, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,22],"tags":[346,201],"class_list":["post-47453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-victim-disarmament","tag-a-good-guy-with-a-gun","tag-heather-martens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47453"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47457,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47453\/revisions\/47457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
![reserve <\/em><\/a>deputy<\/a>.\u00a0 Which in most departments means he helps with parades, and doesn’t have permission to carry weapons, or weapons training,\u00a0any different than a regular citizen.\u00a0 The Oklahoma County Sheriff’s office may be different – but I’m gonna guess they’re not.<\/p>\nTime will tell.\u00a0 But experience shows us that time will likely tell us that it was a law-abiding citizen with little special training, but a strong desire to keep himself and his co-workers alive.\u00a0<\/p>\nSomeone tell Michael Bloomberg.\u00a0 And Heather Martens.<\/p>\nUPDATE 2:\u00a0 While the fella was a recent convert to Islam, I’m gonna blame “crazy”, rather than “Moslem”, if that’s OK with y’all.<\/p>\nUPDATE 3:\u00a0 A check of the Oklahoma County, Oklahoma sheriff’s department website indicates that their reserve deputies do <\/em>recieve “basic law enforcement training”, without going into detail.\u00a0 Does this mean they carry firearms, just like regular patrol deputies?\u00a0 I’ll find out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A horrific rampage in Oklahoma, involving a recent convert to Islam beheading one woman and stabbing another, was ended… …by a citizen with a carry permit.\u00a0 More on the show tomorrow, and on SITD on Monday. UPDATE:\u00a0 While some media are calling the shooter\/hero an “off duty cop” – which implies he was a policeman, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,22],"tags":[346,201],"class_list":["post-47453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-victim-disarmament","tag-a-good-guy-with-a-gun","tag-heather-martens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47453"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47457,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47453\/revisions\/47457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"http:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/press-release-620x381.jpg\"){kind=link}