December 7, 2024

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This time a ‘good guy’ with a gun saved ‘many lives’.

This time a ‘good guy’ with a gun saved ‘many lives’.

The NRA’s doctrine that “the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun” has been challenged like never before. Investigation report Members of the Texas House of Representatives were killed in the May 24 Uvalde shooting at Rapp Elementary School, where 19 students and two teachers died. No fewer than 376 police officers converged on the crime scene, where none of them intervened to neutralize the shooter and save the students alive before 77 long minutes passed.

Elisha Dicken, a 22-year-old gunman, saved “several lives” Sunday after shooting a gunman who killed three people and wounded two others, according to police. on the Indiana State Mall. The shooter, aged 20 and armed with two rifles and a pistol, had a hundred rounds of ammunition.

“His actions were nothing short of heroic” said Greenwood Police Chief Jim Eisen talks about Dignan. “He took out the shooter from a distance with a pistol, he was very skilled in that area, very cunning. When he closed in on the suspect, he was waving people behind him. »

According to investigators, Dicken had no military or police training.

(Photo by Reuters)

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