This is why I support concealed carry laws.

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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?

[chaotic-nipple.livejournal.com]

No, the proper solution is to BAN KNIVES!!!1!

[aitkendrum.livejournal.com]

But why even have guns at all in public hands? Yes, it saved lives this time but how many more massacres have there been with guns in wide civilian circulation.

I certainly feel better living in a society where I know Joe Bloggs isn't at least allowed to carry guns.