98Z5V Posted March 30, 2018 Report Share Posted March 30, 2018 Let's see if this pops up in the MSM, or any news... https://bearingarms.com/tom-k/2018/03/29/illinois-man-uses-ar-15-save-life/ Posted at 4:00 pm on March 29, 2018 by Tom Knighton Time and time again, we’re told that there’s absolutely no reason to have an AR-15 except to take a human life. They’re “weapons of war,” they’re tools designed to kill and nothing else, some say. However, an Illinois man is alive today because of an AR-15 in the hands of a private citizen. 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 on the 100 block of Harbor Drive. 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.” … 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. I think part of why the AR-15 was so effective was because of the media hype. The news is filled with reports of them being instruments of war and murder, so when a man with a knife is faced with certain disintegration from a handheld, small-caliber bazooka, of course, he ran. If that was the case, the media have finally made themselves useful. More importantly, though, this was a good guy with a gun at the right place and the right time, something anti-gunners insist almost never happens. Well, it does happen, and this is a prime example. Further, this one is unlikely to be counted in any statistics, either. The stabbing itself will, but the resolution by an armed citizen may well not be. There’s nothing to report at this point, so it may well slip through the cracks. And that’s a shame. Good guys with guns end violent acts by bad people with weapons of all kinds. They end the threat and protect lives. They do it far more often than bad people with guns take lives, and that’s because guns are a lifesaving tool. Mr. Thomas did the right thing; he put his own safety on the line and protected his fellow man. Contrary to what it may look like from the outside, that’s not an easy thing to do, yet he did it without hesitation. That’s heroism right there, folks. And think, some people want to disarm Mr. Thomas because of someone else’s misuse of an AR-15. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unforgiven Posted March 30, 2018 Report Share Posted March 30, 2018 Way to go Mr. Thomas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malig8r Posted March 30, 2018 Report Share Posted March 30, 2018 It’s unfortunate that there aren’t statistics which represent usage of firearms to resolve violent crimes. We can track the mating habits of the Red-cockaded woodpecker but not how many crimes are prevented or resolved with firearm utilization. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unforgiven Posted March 30, 2018 Report Share Posted March 30, 2018 Over all stat's show a decline in crime relative to firearm ownership. Fukin cowards aren't going to go up against any resistance . Crime is for the most part a crime of opportunity , you can't give that opportunity a chance. As we all here know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magwa Posted April 2, 2018 Report Share Posted April 2, 2018 Good Job..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sisco Posted April 2, 2018 Report Share Posted April 2, 2018 Some people live in fear, some people delude themselves that all people are "nice" and some do what it takes to protect themselves and others. Bless the Sheep Dogs of the world. Both the human and the animal type. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bubbas4570 Posted April 2, 2018 Report Share Posted April 2, 2018 At the base ideal, they are all tools....the use of which is determined by the mind. The good use, or evil use, all stems from the mind, which is not something that can be legislated or predicted reliably. A high heeled shoe can be used to kill with.....or made to look good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C Funnk Posted April 3, 2018 Report Share Posted April 3, 2018 9 hours ago, bubbas4570 said: At the base ideal, they are all tools....the use of which is determined by the mind. The good use, or evil use, all stems from the mind, which is not something that can be legislated or predicted reliably. A high heeled shoe can be used to kill with.....or made to look good. Right on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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