This is why I support concealed carry laws.

[gridlore]

8 Grocery Employees Stabbed in Tennessee

A knife-wielding grocery store employee attacked eight co-workers Friday, seriously injuring five before a witness pulled a gun and stopped him, police said.

Elartrice Ingram, 21, was charged with nine counts of attempted first-degree murder, police said. The attack apparently stemmed from a work dispute, investigators said.

Five victims, one in critical condition, were admitted to the Regional Medical Center, the main trauma hospital for the Memphis area. Three others were less badly hurt and treated at another hospital.

Ingram, chasing one victim into the store's parking lot, was subdued by Chris Cope, manager of a financial services office in the same small shopping center, Memphis Police Sgt. Vince Higgins said.

Cope said he grabbed a 9mm semiautomatic pistol from his pickup truck when he saw the attacker chasing the victim "like something in a serial killer movie."

"When he turned around and saw my pistol, he threw the knife away, put his hands up and got on the ground," Cope told The Associated Press. "He saw my gun and that was pretty much it."

Police arrived within minutes and took the Ingram into custody.

One citizen with a gun. No shots fired. And how many lives saved?

Comments

[robertprior.livejournal.com]

Mind you, if Ingram had had a gun, how many murder chrages (as opposed to attempted murder) would there have been?

[drewkitty.livejournal.com]

The point is that a deranged lunatic can use anything, and that law-abiding citizens would be far better off if we outgunned as well as outnumbered the lunatics.

[gridlore.livejournal.com]

Had Ingram planned his attack, and brought the usual plethora of weapons and ammo that are used in workplace massacres, he probably would have killed many more people.

But this was a case of him snapping, and using the weapons at hand. In this case, the citizen with the gun was able to step in and end the situation.

[robertprior.livejournal.com]

My point being that if Ingram had had a gun (say a concealed carry permit) then he very likely would have killed people.

[firestrike.livejournal.com]

According to the stats, the people who go to the trouble of getting concealed carry permits are less likely to attempt to commit homicide with a firearm.