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Posted by David Hardy · 18 June 2022 01:58 PM

This comes from a year ago, but the person involved deserves to be remembered. John Hurley, of Arvada, Colorado, was a CCW holder. A mental case (who had proclaimed his intent to kill as many police as possible) murdered an officer, Hurley rushed to the scene, and killed the murderer. Other police arrived, assumed Hurley was the murderer, and fatally shot him.

3 Comments | Leave a comment

Old Guy | June 18, 2022 7:11 PM | Reply

Someone I know said if you use a gun to take out a shooter - afterwards sit down on the ground with the gun about 10 feet away and your hands on your head - you might survive that way

Lagman | June 18, 2022 9:08 PM | Reply

For me this is a real fear and test of faith - expose myself to save another or do nothing ?

Sacrifice my life to the "first responders" or "live with the guilt of inaction" ?

No good deed goes unpunished.

Separately, it would be interesting to know just how many times LEOs killed their own - either plain clothes or off-duty - when the "official responding" officers arrived and just "shot first".

Over the last many decades I should have kept a record of news articles - just in my major NE metro area. (Then again as suggested in the movie "Serpico" sometimes it is intentional and never reported accurately.)

Mike-SMO | June 18, 2022 11:39 PM | Reply

Hard to not look evil when you are holding a gun and hard to put the gun down when you have had to use it.

Putting the firearm down when the police arrive (late as usual) is the hardest part of the test. Do it! They will probably share half a donut with you.......

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