The good guy with a gun argument example happened in Brazil.
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Not really a "good guy with a gun" a scenario. The woman being an off-duty officer is likely required to have her weapon on her at most times. There are other, probably many, very similar situations where off-duty officers have stopped such malefactors. There are also situations where off-duty officers have inappropriately drawn their weapons; such as the case here, in California the other day, when an off-duty cop pulled his gun on a guy who was walking away from a store counter with a roll of mints, which he had just purchased.
Condor5
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May 15, 2018
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The link is blocked.
birdingnut
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May 14, 2018
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@birdingnut Odd. Works fine for me, maybe blocked from your location?
@Roadster I'm in Thailand, but have a VPN, so don't know how, or why they'd block this particular story. I googled two more links to the same story and those were blocked as well.
Maybe someone could summarize what happened.
@birdingnut The video shows a man casually walking in the street then walking up to what looks like a hotel entrance (in fact it's a school) with a gun drawn. The video has no sound i.e. security cam. Several mothers and child seemed well dressed (wealthy maybe) are around the entrance. When the gun man appears many scramble. The article says he was robbing the place. One woman (mother) immediately fires three shot in his chest. The man falls on the street in severe pain. She appears to know her stuff by keeping a pointing gun at the man and recuperating his weapon then making him flip on his chest. This has taken place in Brazil (known for kidnapping and armed robbery). The title of the article is: Gunman who attempted to rob young children and families outside a school is killed by a waiting mother (who turned out to be an off-duty armed policewoman). The publication: Daily Mail (a U.K. publication)
@Lukian Thanks!
I worry that her actions may have increased the trauma for the children. However, due to some computer glitch, I am unable to read the entire article. I have no way to determine if I would have reacted the same. That being said, better him dead than an innocent child, if that choice had to be made.
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