Florida ccw owner saves potential shooting disaster

[quangtran1]

Gun owners aren't all bad. And, they may even save lives!


Florida armed bystander stops gunman at crowded back-to-school event at park, police say | Fox News

 

[possum_128]

A win all the way around. The only person injured was the bad guy. Too bad he was not just injured. +1 for the good guy!

 

[KellyinAvon]

A win for the good guys! That could have been a tragedy of epic proportions.

 

[Dirtebiker]

We’ll wait and see how much coverage this gets on the evening news.

 

[Doug]

​BREAKING NEWS on CNN:
Florida gun-owner shoots man at back-to-school event at park. Victim struggling to survive.

 

[singlesix]

​BREAKING NEWS on CNN:
[Atl_Right, Trump Lover, NRA Life Member,] Florida gun-owner shoots man at back-to-school event at park. Victim struggling to survive.

FTFY

 

[rhino]

Gun owners aren't all bad. And, they may even save lives!


Florida armed bystander stops gunman at crowded back-to-school event at park, police say | Fox News

That's a situation where the police couldn't help even if you had already dialed 9-1 just before it happened unless they were already on the scene.

A private citizen who was already present and was armed and was willing to take positive action saved the day.

 

[ghuns]

Not much to see on the video floating around. But listening to it, seems like a couple seconds of loud, rapid fire, followed by a slight pause, and a much quieter single 'pop'.

If the good guy really did only fire once, and hit the BG in the head, damn. That's good chootin.

 

[DeadeyeChrista'sdad]

Choot 'im, Lizbeth!

 

[Dirtebiker]

So?.... did anyone see this on the news?
We didn’t.

 

[BugI02]

So?.... did anyone see this on the news?
We didn’t.

As far as MSMBS, I've only seen this WaPo story which makes it sound like the good guy with gun did not confront the shooter until he was all done shooting and starting to leave (that's certainly not the way it sounds on the cell phone audio) and then predictably goes on to make much of how dangerous it was for the kids that either party was shooting at all (putting both parties at the same level of culpability)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...s-ready/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.e943e7cd80d5


I've skimmed one in The Guardian I think that took the same tack

 

[ghuns]

...I've only seen this WaPo story which makes it sound like the good guy with gun did not confront the shooter until he was all done shooting and starting to leave...

Listening to the audio, there is a rapid barrage of shooting that lasts about 2 seconds, then a very slight pause, and another shot. Less than 5 seconds from first shot to last. Under those circumstances, that's a pretty fast reaction on the part of the good guy. Especially to put a round in the bad guy's gourd.

Hardly enough time to ascertain whether the bad guy was all done and calling it a day, or simply moving and reloading.

 

[BugI02]

Yeah, it sounds to me like bad guy was surprised/confronted during the act of shooting up the place. It also sounds to me like someone yells "freeze" just before the shooting starts. then its all a rapid fire jumble of shots