What would you do if you were just going about your day, which included a visit to Walmart, and you came across a guy who was stabbing people right there in the store? How many people, you ask, were attacked (though, I’m not sure why this would affect your decision)? Answer: eleven people.
That’s the situation that a Marine veteran found himself in recently. Just going about his day and finding that he might mean the difference between people living and dying.
Thankfully, that Marine veteran had just left the range and had his gun on him to stop the incident, or it could have been much, much worse. John Lott writes,
Astabbing at a Michigan Walmart on Saturday was stopped by an armed man — a Marine veteran — who went to the shooting range but “forgot to take his pistol off his hip.”
The New York Times, Associated Press, Washington Post, NPR, NBC News, BBC, and many others completely ignored the gun used to stop the attack. An eyewitness described how others who had tried to stop the attacker were stabbed, but it took the Marine with a gun to stop the attack.
The attack was stopped several minutes before the first responders were able to arrive.
Just the fact that eleven people were stabbed before someone showed up on the scene to be able to stop the attacker is appalling.
But that is the world that we live in. People are taught to be passive and to wait for law enforcement to show up.
Certainly there are times when waiting on law enforcement is the right thing to do, but when an active violent attack is going on, waiting isn’t helping anyone but the attacker. Waiting in those situations is the wrong answer.
And that’s why you should train and carry all of the time.
You don’t know whose life you may be saving by having your firearm on you.
