04-22-2018, 10:16 PM
(This post was last modified: 04-23-2018, 01:14 AM by Eric the Green.)
(04-22-2018, 03:45 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: I wonder who is crazier, the guy running around nude with an assault rifle, or the Waffle House customer that takes him on without a weapon? You expect the shooter to be crazy?
He is a hero, no doubt about that. One true millennial "hero"
Police praised a customer who prevented further bloodshed in the shooting. They said James Shaw Jr., 29, rushed Reinking, wrestled him to the ground and tossed the weapon. Shaw's hands were severely burned from grabbing the AR-15 but he still managed to push Reinking out of the establishment.
"He is the hero here, and no doubt he saved many lives by wrestling the gun away and then tossing it over the counter, and prompting the man to leave," Aaron said.
Shaw said he wasn't going to make it easy for Reinking to kill him and said he knew he only had one chance.
"I saw an opportunity -- my window -- so I took it. I ran through the door as fast as I could and just kind of jammed him up with the gun when it pointed down. We started wrestling and fighting for it. I just took it and tossed it over the counter. I pushed him out of the restaurant and he walked off," Shaw told WTVF-TV.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/waffle-hous...018-04-22/
"He was only wearing a jacket and nothing else on," Cordero, a roadside-assistance worker, said of the gunman.
Police said two of the dead were shot outside the restaurant and one inside. A fourth person who was shot inside the restaurant later died at the hospital.
Two other people shot in the incident were in critical but stable condition at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville. Other victims were struck by shattered glass.
The person who wrestled the rifle away from the shooter is a "hero," police said.
Cordero used the same word.
"There's a hero," Cordero said. "I don't know what his name is, but there's a gentleman who was in there, who when this guy stopped to reload or stopped to do something with his gun, he took that opportunity and wrestled the guy till the gun went flying and then the dude took off running."
"I talked to him afterward and told him, 'You are a hero, man,' because had that guy reloaded, there were plenty more people in that restaurant," he said.
But the courageous patron, identified as James Shaw Jr., 29, refused to call himself a hero.
https://www.yahoo.com/gma/3-dead-several...ories.html
How many deaths does it take until Americans know that too many people have died? (paraphrasing Bob Dylan)
Vote Democratic. Vote against all NRA-backed politicians. Demand a ban on all semi-automatics with large magazines.
"Their right to own an assault rifle, does not outweigh our right to live"-- Matt Post, March 14, 2018