Memorable line from the piece: “”… believes if he’d grabbed the smaller gun, the threat would have been less effective and he would have ended up shooting the man“
So a big black scary rifle (of only medium caliber) stopped a thug without firing a shot: deterrence through strength! Reformatted, emphasis mine:
Dave Thomas was getting ready for work Monday afternoon when he heard women screaming in his apartment building in Oswego.
Thomas, a gun instructor, peeked out the door and saw blood in the hallway. He went to his bedroom, where a handgun and an AR-15 assault-style rifle were lying on the bed. He picked up the rifle. “I teach people how to defend themselves, and it was just a reaction to grab the AR-15,” he said.
Police said Thomas confronted a man who was stabbing another man in the apartment complex. The man with the knife ran off when Thomas threatened to shoot him. “He was a half a breath away from getting his head blown off and he knew that,” Thomas, 41, said. “That’s why he put the knife down.”
Kendall County sheriff’s deputies arrived about 5 p.m. and arrested two people, the man suspected of stabbing his neighbor and a woman with him…Jacob Currey, 22, who lives in the building, was charged with aggravated battery and mob action. The same charges were filed against Alyssa Wright, 19, of Naperville.
A 27-year-old woman who lives in the building said she had ordered pizza and went outside to meet the delivery driver when Currey started to fight with her. That escalated into him stabbing her husband inside the building. The woman said she is nine months pregnant and was already on bed rest. “He told me he was gonna kill my baby — while his hand was covered in my husband’s blood,” she said.
A sheriff’s spokesman, Detective Bryan Harl, credited Thomas with preventing the situation from getting worse, and said the investigation showed he’d done nothing criminal. “He did in the moment what he thought was going to de-escalate this situation and stop any further violence or loss of life and for that he is to be praised,” Harl said.
Thomas believes if he’d grabbed the smaller gun, the threat would have been less effective and he would have ended up shooting the man.
So, what will the breathless gun grabbers do about this scenario – Thomas was right there on the spot within a few seconds while the police would have been minutes away. Minutes, btw, in which the guy being stabbed probably would have been dead by then and the police only there to do the chalk markings.
Yet, the folks that don’t believe in the 2nd Amendment (like NH State Rep Katherine Rogers) would feel better about their self-righteous indignation that we shouldn’t have such protections if that victim had died (and we all think they are all about “victims”) because that black scary gun hadn’t been there. Then Thomas probably WOULD have shot the stabber and the folks that don’t believe in the 2nd Amendment (like NH State Rep Katherine Rogers) would be howling about “violence inequality” because the perp only had a knife and his right to life was violated.
It’s always about “their” choice of victim.
Good on Thomas and thank God for our Right to self-defense in all situations.
(H/T: Union Leader (of all places!))
