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Criminal brings knife to a gunfight
A ^#^&#(* stabs eight people, then finds someone in a mood to resist
"The attacker, 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, 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."".
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The CBS News website decide to leave out the citizen with a gun part and substitute "By the time the suspect was tackled....."
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/07/21/national/main1826141.shtml
The original AP story reported this correctly with the citizen stopping him with a handgun.
Good catch, Jim.
I emailed CBS to demand a correction. I also asked why they changed the story, as if I didn't already know the answer to that.
I think people should raise a stink about this with CBS for making stuff up.
One other point, the supermarket was a Schnuck's, based in St.Louis, and I'm told they are very big anti-gun supporters. It's ironic that a person with a knife stabs 8 in the Schnuck's and a man with a gun stops it without firing a shot...
6pence
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It appears to be a "Militia" of one; providing for the "common defense" of the many. Second Amendment is intact!
The cops said they don't encourage folks to defend themselves or others.
"But we don't encourage people to take that kind of risk. He could have been hurt."
Nary a though for the victims saved.
Keep your guns; the cops likely won't be there in time.