Police kill good Samaritan who killed cop-killer

Irwin

Irwin

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Sitting in the parking lot of a medical imaging facility this past Monday, my wife and I witnessed a battalion of police cars, ambulances, and firetrucks storming up Wadsworth Blvd in Arvada, Colorado. We found out later that they were responding to a shooting of a police officer, a bystander, and the perpetrator.

It turns out that the perpetrator was mad at cops for some reason, so he ambushed and shot the cop who showed up on the scene. He shot the cop with a shotgun. He also had an AR-15. Then one of the local business owners decided to go after the perpetrator, so he ran out of his restaurant with a pistol, shot and killed him. Apparently, he picked up the perpetrator's AR-15 and was holding it when more police showed up. The police thought he was the shooter who killed the cop, so they shot and killed him.

So the good guy with a gun stopped a bad guy with a gun but then is shot dead by the police.

Here is the story:
https://coloradosun.com/2021/06/25/johnny-hurley-police-shooting-olde-town-arvada/
 

Ohioboy Started a thread https://www.seniorforums.com/threads/ohio-teachers-packing-heat-must-have-potc.61385/#post-1776958 this killing carries on from that. Another day, another killing.

Everyone must remember Dunblane:
Dunblane school massacre, event on March 13, 1996, in which gunman, Thomas Hamilton, invaded a primary school in the small Scottish town of Dunblane and shot to death 16 young children and their teacher before turning a gun on himself.

Here is what the UK and in particular, Scotland did. Rather than campaign for armed response, rather than give fire arms to protect vulnerable children and rather than argue that more firearms, not less, make the world a safer place:

In the aftermath of the massacre, residents of Dunblane initiated the Snowdrop Campaign (named for the spring flower that was in bloom at the time of the mass shooting) to seek changes in British gun laws. The campaign’s petition gathered some 750,000 signatures, and a letter written by the mother of one of the slain children was printed in two national newspapers. In February 1997 Parliament responded by passing a law banning private ownership of handguns above .22 calibre, and in November 1997 the ban was extended to all handguns. In addition, security requirements for gun clubs were expanded. Following the passage of those laws, the incidence of gun killings in the U.K. dropped significantly.

That's how we deal with such appalling tragedies. NaĂŻve? If you say so, but the results speak for themselves. Less guns, less gun crime.
And if that Samaritan, and his act of bravery, had happened here in the UK, he would still be alive today. Our police are unarmed.
 
Aunt Marg said:
Doesn't at all surprise me.

I have (many times) wondered why it doesn't happen more often.
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Doesn't surprise me either. My take on why it doesn't happen more often is that most
guys with a gun use a little common sense so as not to end up a victim. Just leave it to those
who are paid to enforce the law.
 
Nosy Bee-54 said:
Doesn't surprise me either. My take on why it doesn't happen more often is that most
guys with a gun use a little common sense so as not to end up a victim. Just leave it to those
who are paid to enforce the law.
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You said it better than I ever could have, Nosy Bee!
 

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