Customer with concealed carry permit fatally shoots ax-wielding attacker at 7-Eleven

Poor ax guy is victimized by old guy with gun.

Hatchet-swinging attacker shot and killed by customer at 7-11

The store clerk says the masked man entered the store and immediately started swinging a hatchet toward a customer — then he turned his sights on the clerk.

Witnesses told deputies the attacker remained silent during the entire ordeal.
The clerk suffered minor injuries to his stomach, but before more damage could be done, the customer fired his pistol and hit the suspect.
Medics arrived shortly after and he was pronounced dead at the scene.
King County Sheriff’s investigators say the customer who shot the man appears to have done nothing wrong, and they are happy he was there to intervene.
“Fortunately, because of this customer with his weapon, this could have been a lot worse,” said King County Sheriff’s Sergeant Cindi West.
“The clerk could be the one laying there dead on the floor right now.”

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Gun control says this is not possible. Just having a gun puts you at a disadvantage of being shot with it.

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Crimefree said:

Gun control says this is not possible. Just having a gun puts you at a disadvantage of being shot with it.

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They believe many silly things.

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There are not enough positive gun stories and when there is one it is buried.

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TaterTots said:

There are not enough positive gun stories and when there is one it is buried.

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The truth is firearm owners are bone idle and are happy to see the media print and sensationalise the bad aspects. None of them write the media and make demands. Nor are they willing to boycott or demonstrate.

Fact is the media prints what sells. They are in business to make money. If firearm owners foolishly believe the media will just print stuff that has no sales/readership potential out of the goodness of their hearts, they are way out of touch with reality.

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Oh come on guys, we are just looking at this all wrong... instead of whining about gun control, we should simply jump on board the hatchet-control bandwagon. You see, if they had only had the proper hatchet laws in place, this never ever would even been a problem in the first place.

Viola, problem solved.

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I don't like guns (just a personal opinion of mine, I find they often are associated with negative energies), but like the man who doesn't like abortion, it gives me no right to regulate what people can or cannot do with their own bodies. They wanna carry a gun on them? Great. I don't see what's wrong with that as long as they're a bona-fide decent human-being who will be responsible with the thing. Like the man in question from the topic.

The government should actively work with gun-owners to facilitate and promote gun-safety. Why isn't this a thing? Liberals will profit much more heavily from gun-control if, as opposed to arbitrarily banning and restricting gun ownership, encouraging an organized citizen network of responsible gun-owners, devoted to the defense of the community, that work with communities to promote firearm safety and awareness, and how to more adequately spot and prevent a potential gun-abuser and/or armed criminal.

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Abbazorkzog said:

I don't like guns (just a personal opinion of mine, I find they often are associated with negative energies), but like the man who doesn't like abortion, it gives me no right to regulate what people can or cannot do with their own bodies. They wanna carry a gun on them? Great. I don't see what's wrong with that as long as they're a bona-fide decent human-being who will be responsible with the thing. Like the man in question from the topic.

The government should actively work with gun-owners to facilitate and promote gun-safety. Why isn't this a thing? Liberals will profit much more heavily from gun-control if, as opposed to arbitrarily banning and restricting gun ownership, encouraging an organized citizen network of responsible gun-owners, devoted to the defense of the community, that work with communities to promote firearm safety and awareness, and how to more adequately spot and prevent a potential gun-abuser and/or armed criminal.

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It is nice to see you are open minded. Are you sure you are using an informed approach to this rather than the lies of gun control? Firearms are incredibly safe, more so than matches. It has often been asked how many guns must one pile up before they do anything and that point seems to be missing from your thinking.

As a measure of safety and responsibility we can look at the record that shows a lack of that. Accidental deaths and injuries. Both of this are very low indeed. Accidental deaths is between 500 and 600 per year. Swimming pool owners cannot even get close to that.

Again you possibly have not thought things through. Gun control lies, every single word uttered by gun control will be a lie. How does one spot a criminal? If there was any ability to "spot" abusers of anything why is it not being applied to murderers, rapists, robbers, paedophiles....

You have the right idea to question these things and it it is unfortunate indeed that the correct answers are not easy to obtain because firearm organisation take little interest in public education.

A lot of questions can be answered here Gun Facts - Debunking Gun Control Myths


Never be afraid to ask.

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Abbazorkzog said:

I don't like guns (just a personal opinion of mine, I find they often are associated with negative energies), but like the man who doesn't like abortion, it gives me no right to regulate what people can or cannot do with their own bodies. They wanna carry a gun on them? Great. I don't see what's wrong with that as long as they're a bona-fide decent human-being who will be responsible with the thing. Like the man in question from the topic.

The government should actively work with gun-owners to facilitate and promote gun-safety. Why isn't this a thing? Liberals will profit much more heavily from gun-control if, as opposed to arbitrarily banning and restricting gun ownership, encouraging an organized citizen network of responsible gun-owners, devoted to the defense of the community, that work with communities to promote firearm safety and awareness, and how to more adequately spot and prevent a potential gun-abuser and/or armed criminal.

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If the government would actually work with gun owners? I love that idea, but the government has too many members of the house and senate that could care less was private citizens think.

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Gaugingcatenate said:

Oh come on guys, we are just looking at this all wrong... instead of whining about gun control, we should simply jump on board the hatchet-control bandwagon. You see, if they had only had the proper hatchet laws in place, this never ever would even been a problem in the first place.

Viola, problem solved.

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Hmmm suggesting one join insanity will not solve the problem. :lol:

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Crimefree said:

Hmmm suggesting one join insanity will not solve the problem. :lol:

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Well, dang, always wanted to be one of those crazy fool cool kids, now you are denying me that warm cozy, are ya? Guess I will just have to go back to dealing with reality as it actually exists then, party pooper.

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RetiredUSN said:

If the government would actually work with gun owners? I love that idea, but the government has too many members of the house and senate that could care less was private citizens think.

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Actually government consists of nothing but people who's only desire is more power. It is a fool indeed that thinks government will do anything unless power is involved either gaining, holding or fear of losing. Which party do you know that will give away 1% of voters?

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Gaugingcatenate said:

Well, dang, always wanted to be one of those crazy fool cool kids, now you are denying me that warm cozy, are ya? Guess I will just have to go back to dealing with reality as it actually exists then, party pooper.

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They have all the fun but it is hectic. They sit around waiting for a nice tragedy to happen and then the party is on. It is Mardi Gras time for gun control. They dance in the media limelight, sway to the hypnotic chant "guns kill" and swim in the blood of victims, splashing it about with gay abandon. Some dangerous fool who stops a crime or criminal with a gun is like peeing in the punch bowl. That's a party pooper of note.

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Crimefree said:

They have all the fun but it is hectic. They sit around waiting for a nice tragedy to happen and then the party is on. It is Mardi Gras time for gun control. They dance in the media limelight, sway to the hypnotic chant "guns kill" and swim in the blood of victims, splashing it about with gay abandon. Some dangerous fool who stops a crime or criminal with a gun is like peeing in the punch bowl. That's a party pooper of note.

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Worst of all, they have no concept of why the founders put it there, prioritzed it right after our first amendment rights, to protect those from tyranny. Done a pretty good job so far.

Oh, and I saw what you did there with the gay abandon, ha ha ha...but yeah, totally agree. :thumbs:

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TaterTots said:

There are not enough positive gun stories and when there is one it is buried.

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It was local and on the news here. Good stuff.