Concealed Weapon Carrier Saves The Day
BY Herschel Smith
8 years, 8 months ago
A masked man burst into a 7-Eleven near Seattle early Sunday morning, swinging a hatchet and slicing the store clerk.
Before the masked man could seriously hurt anyone, though, a customer who was drinking his morning coffee pulled out a concealed weapon and fatally shot the attacker.
Authorities did not name the attacker or the customer, but they did hail the concealed weapon owner as a hero.
“This could have been disastrous,” King County Sheriff Sgt. Cindi West told KIRO7. “Had this guy not shot, who knows what would have happened? We might have a dead clerk right now, and instead we have a dead bad guy.”
The clerk, Kuldeep Singh, suffered minor cuts to his stomach. He, too, thanked the customer for saving his life.
“He [was] killing me,” Singh, 58, said of the hatchet-wielding attacker. Singh added that the customer was a “nice guy.”
West said that the incident will be investigated fully but that the 60-year-old customer was currently being considered a Good Samaritan.
Wait a minute! The weapon carrier wasn’t an evil NRA member child molester and serial abuser? You mean he wasn’t a rapist? You mean he didn’t make things less safe by carrying a weapon? We hear all the time about how use – even mere ownership – of a weapon always fails and makes you less safe. In this case, even the LEO is calling this guy a hero, while the victim is hailing him as a good Samaritan.
The narrative failed so badly in this case something had to go wrong at The Washington Post. How did the editors let this one slip through?
On March 16, 2016 at 5:02 pm, Ned Weatherby said:
TWP and other newspapers and news outlets would prefer that the proprietor, Mr. Singh, die.
Amazing that the paper would let this through: “… the customer was a “nice guy.”
Perhaps next time Mr. Singh will be packing his own Roscoe.
On March 16, 2016 at 9:29 pm, UNCLEELMO said:
This story is almost as delicious as the Good Samaritan’s morning cup of coffee.