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« Prof. Brian Anse Patrick releases "Zombology" | Main | More on the PA hospital shooting »

Mercy Hospital shooting: bad guy with a gun stopped by good guy with same

Posted by David Hardy · 24 July 2014 04:48 PM

Story here. The killer murdered a psychiatric case worker, and then was shot and seriously wounded by a doctor who was carrying a gun. The doctor was nicked by a shot from the killer, it's not yet reported whether that came before or after he hit the killer.

This may illustrate what others have noted: the other side can claim that mass shootings have not been stopped by self-defenders, because mass killings are arbitrarily defined to involve four or more dead, and when a self-defender is present he or she stops the attack before it can reach that number.

UPDATE: the doctor got three hits on the murderer. I'd say the good guy was no amateur.

· Self defense

2 Comments | Leave a comment

Forrest | July 24, 2014 8:01 PM | Reply

http://www.guidestar.org/organizations/23-2212638/mercy-health-system-southeastern-pennsylvania.aspx#

Here's a link to the board members of this hospital. Maybe a MDA style letter and email writing war will save this hero's job.

Forrest replied to comment from Forrest | July 24, 2014 8:03 PM | Reply

https://www.facebook.com/mercybariatrics

Here's their FB page as well.

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