Recent mass shooting in Colorado was ended by a civilian with a legal firearm:
“[John Hurley] did not hesitate; he didn’t stand there and think about it. He totally heard the gunfire, went to the door, saw the shooter and immediately ran in that direction,” [colleague Bill]] Troyanos said. “I just want to make sure his family knows how heroic he was.”
A manager at a business nearby who asked not to be identified said he was outside when he heard Hurley urge people to get to safety.
“He turned back and looked towards everybody at the restaurant and told us that he (the gunman) is coming, that he is coming back and that we should get inside,” the manager said. “I ran to the back of the store, closer to the alley, kind of ‘nooked’ myself in a corner just to feel safe.”
It’s an object lesson – being the “Good Guy with the Gun” doesn’t necessarily ensure one’s safety.
But by all indications, it’s a spree killing deterred.
UPDATE: He was apparently killed by the responding cops.
Gotta be careful out there.
Rick Rescorla, 9/11 hero, Ia Drang veteran said: the real heroes are dead. The overuse of the word in recent years makes me sad. Hurley seems to be the real deal, not so much because he died, but that he placed the lives of strangers above his own.
The police are not your friend.
Just another data point in the hypothesis that if you or someone you love isn’t threatened then it’s time to E&E…..
Is there any news update on how the good guy died? Are the police going to bury it if they did it?
So the good guy with a gun shot the bad guy with a gun and then a good guy with a gun killed a good guy with a gun. Sounds like a lot of guns.
An obvious problem with the “good guy with a gun” model of public safety.
NRA is struggling to figure out a narrative that says that more guns would have prevented this.
So the good guy with a gun shot the bad guy with a gun and if we didn’t have any police, this story would of had a happy ending.
The police are not your friend.
Unfortunately the free for all, everyone is armed solution does allow for this outcome. In this day and age if you have a gun in your hand chances are the police may shoot you.
Super surprised the “OK Corral” philosophy of gun ownership and use yields these results.
It seems to me this incident may have something of a “chilling effect” on one’s 2nd Amendment rights, but weirdly most gun rights advocates don’t see it as a problem.
The real lesson here is that once you’ve rendered the threat harmless, your top priority is to behave in a fashion that the authorities can’t perceive a threat from.
Kinlaw, the police admitted it the same day, to their credit. Time and investigation will tell whether it was unclear, whether it was an obvious mistake, or what. Tone of the chief’s admission that the police shot a man the police call a hero seems to suggest that he is sick to his stomach that his department did this.
I think those of us who support gun rights ought to take a good look and see what this does, or does not, mean for reasonable tactics.
GF Whisler @ 10:12 AM yesterday – good point about ‘top priority’ – I assume that can’t be easy to do/think after a shooting ……
I’m not quite there with AllenS; but damn this sucks
RIP Mr. Hurley