GUNS/BARMS

[basserdan]

So Much For The Demand To Be A Sitting Duck

By Karl Denninger
2014-07-26 08:15

It appears that at least one doctor has had enough of people trying to argue that "the only people who should have guns are government agencies." Good thing too, or he'd be dead.

Authorities are attempting to determine why a patient fatally shot a caseworker at a suburban Philadelphia hospital complex and whether a psychiatrist who pulled out his own gun and wounded the patient had concerns about him.

The psychiatrist, Dr. Lee Silverman, was grazed in the temple during the gunfight in his office Thursday afternoon with patient Richard Plotts, Delaware County District Attorney Jack Whelan said.
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The patient apparently entered the facility and shot a caseworker. The psychiatrist drew his own weapon (which policy at the hospital prohibited him from having) and put a stop to the assault.

In doing so he almost-certainly saved lives, although he was hit (but not seriously) in the exchange of gunfire.

Indeed, had he been unarmed the patient could have simply wandered through the facility shooting people until he ran out of ammunition of the police arrived. He would have run out of ammunition first, of course.

Enough with the BS "gun control" garbage. As I have repeatedly noted people with criminal intent don't give a damn what the law is, including the laws related to firearms.

The only thing that stops a murderous bastard with a gun is a good guy with gun, and the closer the good guy is, no matter who he is, the better the chance of minimizing or preventing the loss of innocent life.

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