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

[murbin.livejournal.com]

I used to live in a neighborhood where I knew for a fact that every house on the street had multiple firearms in them. It was a middleclass housing development filled mostly with IBM employees. They were hunters and/or belonged to the pistol club a mile or so down the road. The typical house had at least one handgun, a rifle or three and a shotgun. My parents lived there for over 30 years. Not one single firearm related incident.

Now, I've been in sections of LA where every third person (at least) was carrying and unregistered/illegal handgun. Crack dealers need them for their job. I felt a lot less safe there then I did back amoung the more heavily armed IBMers.

If you do independent research on the victim disarment laws in the US, you will end shaking your head and wondering how they got passed in the first place.

[firestrike.livejournal.com]

If you do independent research on the victim disarmament laws in the US, you will end shaking your head and wondering how they got passed in the first place.

Because most of the discussion of this issue takes place on an emotional level, rather than on an intellectual level.