Good Samaritan
The thing that surprises me most about this news report from Texas is the reporters. They call him a hero and not a vigilante. Happy about the guns. Why, it’s like America:
Remember, I do this to entertain me, not you.
Uncle Pays the Bills
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May 1st, 2014 at 9:52 pm
Excellent!
May 1st, 2014 at 11:07 pm
Dumb luck.
Dumb because he could have died for a damn purse and left his kid with no daddy to buy candy for him.
Lucky because the responding cops didn’t pop the guy with the gun and ask questions later.
I’m glad he’s okay and he is a good Samaritan. But he’s not a hero and he sure as hell is not a CC role model.
May 2nd, 2014 at 9:25 am
Lucky because the responding cops didn’t pop the guy with the gun and ask questions later.
Did you miss the part where this happened out here in America, not in a blue state? Why should the cops shoot the good guy? Why did the cops show up? (Phone call stating “thugs proned out, good guy holding them till cops show up” is the most likely reason).
May 2nd, 2014 at 9:25 am
Like many news reports, this one follows a narrative. The interesting thing, as Uncle points out, is that the narrative is PRO self defense, PRO defensive gun use.
Now think how bad the crime problem has to be for the local news reporters to recognize that reporting this in any other way, say by calling the guy a vigilante, would not go over well with viewers. That is what you have in some parts of Houston. And people recognize the difference between criminals and good guys in Texas.
It isn’t the story that is interesting, such defensive gun uses, where nobody gets shot, occur regularly nationwide.
It is the change of the narrative from anti to pro gun, and emphasis on good use of a gun for self defense, that resonates with viewers.
And that means we’re winning, big time.
May 3rd, 2014 at 10:22 am
hank and mikee,
(Phone call stating “thugs proned out, good guy holding them till cops show up”…)=dispatcher stating “bystander has perps at gunpoint”=juiced-up responders hearing “GUN!”= self-preservation training translating to “TARGET!”.
If you don’t believe that, then you are woefully naive. In any scenario that has you with piece out in public, even if justified unlike in this case, get it on the ground and your hands up and out as soon as popo rolls up…that should be the fifth rule.
May 3rd, 2014 at 4:20 pm
I’m glad he’s okay and he is a good Samaritan. But he’s not a hero and he sure as hell is not a CC role model.
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He’s a hero actually. While I don’t subscribe to the “sheepdog” nonsense in general, in this case it seemed to work out just fine.
Take it away Edmund
“When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.”
May 4th, 2014 at 5:53 pm
I’m sure to that woman, he was a hero. And that’s all that matters….