{"id":63025,"date":"2017-05-08T06:00:38","date_gmt":"2017-05-08T11:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=63025"},"modified":"2017-05-05T08:45:13","modified_gmt":"2017-05-05T13:45:13","slug":"another-good-guy-with-a-gun-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=63025","title":{"rendered":"Another Good Guy With A Gun"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another episode in Texas last week of an armed citizen intervening in what police term a potential spree shooting<\/a>.<\/p>\n

One James Jones walked into the “Zona Caliente” sports bar in Arlington, got into an argument, and shot manager Cesar Perez, \u00a0killing him.<\/p>\n

Then, a man – unnamed, except for the cops’ appelation “good samaritan” – with a carry permit shot Jones in the back an unnamed number of times.<\/p>\n

Jones was carrying not one but two guns, one of them with its serial number filed off. \u00a0He had no carry permit.<\/p>\n

The police were cautiously thankful, as usual in these situations:<\/p>\n

“We’re thankful that the good ‘Samaritan’ acted quickly and decisively to end the threat,” Cook said. “We never recommend people get involved. That’s a personal decision that a citizen has to make.”<\/p>\n

Use of force and firearms expert Emanuel Kapelsohn told NBC News that, from his understanding, the man who took down the shooter reacted appropriately.<\/p>\n

“I think it’s to be applauded,” he said. “Not everybody in the world ought to own a gun. Not everybody in the world ought to carry a gun. Not everyone in the world ought to engage an armed criminal where innocent people could be potentially injured.”<\/p>\n

“But this good Samaritan obviously had the ability to do what he did,” Kapelsohn added. “Who knows how many people would be dead if he had not acted?”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That’s twice in one week in Texas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Another episode in Texas last week of an armed citizen intervening in what police term a potential spree shooting. One James Jones walked into the “Zona Caliente” sports bar in Arlington, got into an argument, and shot manager Cesar Perez, \u00a0killing him. Then, a man – unnamed, except for the cops’ appelation “good samaritan” – […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[346,265],"class_list":["post-63025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-victim-disarmament","tag-a-good-guy-with-a-gun","tag-self-defense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63025","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=63025"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63026,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63025\/revisions\/63026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}