A child steps in front of a man’s car. Driver Steven Utash hits the kid with his SUV. He stops to render aid. A mob descends on the white Clinton Township resident (yes there is that) and begin to beat him to death. (Utash is currently in critical condition in a medically-induced coma.) If Utash had been armed, he might have avoided his life-threatening injuries. There’s your “It Should Have Been A Defensive Gun Use” story. In fact, this incident was a defensive gun use . . .
Nurse Deborah Hughes intervened, saving Mr. Utash from greater injury. As Hughes says in the video above, she had a gun in her pocket and she was ready to do “damage” if the mob didn’t stop attacking Mr. Utash. So even though the unarmed Utash was an easy target, his life was still saved by an armed citizen. Our gun hero of the day.
FWIW, I reject the antis’ argument that carrying a gun turns ordinary folks into proto-vigilantes. But it’s certainly true that concealed carry eliminates some of the fear that prevents people from going about their business in less salubrious areas, or intervening on behalf of defenseless people who need help. Keep calm and carry on, as they say.
I’m getting a kick out of the accompanying video with the Doe eyed representative. “[Golly gee] I’m not trying to take away from the rights of individuals who lawfully are supposed to have a gun“.
BULLSHIT. You called for the confiscation of all semi-auto pistols and shotguns in the city (police not exempt) with the threat of imprisonment for 10-30 years.
Reminds me of the story that the Tea Party screamed the “N-word” at Rep John Lewis (Congress) of GA as he and the Black Caucus were ascending the steps to the capital in 2010 during a Tea Party protest.
The next day, Andrew Breitbart challenged someone, anyone to come up with video proving that it happened and no one did. However he did receive 20+ videos of the exact moment, the exact location that it was supposed to have happened and there was no N-word uttered by anyone. So Andrew offered $10K to anyone who could prove it, then raised the offer to $100K a couple of days later.
The charge was NEVER proved and moreover all of the subsequent videos proved the exact opposite: it didn’t happen.
Yet years later the media and other pockets of the Institutional Left are still talking about how the Tea Party screamed racial slurs at Rep. Lewis as he was walking up the stairs to the captital.
Bottom line: the Left doesn’t care about the (real) Truth. All they care about is getting the accusation out there, because they know that the huge majority of citizens who don’t care about politics, don’t care about ideology, don’t care about anything but Cheetos, beer and Kim Kardasian will hear “I had death threats because I proposed gun restrictions” and that’s how it BECOMES truth.
Tea Party folks dispute that it happened immediately after “the incident”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nB7evTKCI00
Four years later, Progressives bring it up as though it’s a fact.
Another example of how progressives stick together, lie, then reenforce their own lies. And since progressives only mix with other progressives, and the mainstream media knows this, they live in a bubble of ignorance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhyUHmzNYMQ
Can you say “Reginald Denny”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Reginald_Denny
How about we have a mental evaluation for joining the military, too? This guy is nucking futs. Oh, and of course he supported gun control. So did Jared Loughner, James Holmes, Karl Pierson, etc.
I own 1 GLOCK, the 21, gen 4. It is the standard by which I judge all other double stack .45 ACP handguns. Ruger and S&W tried thier hands at it, but couldn’t get more than 10 rounds into the magazine. Even Sig, with their new 1k+ P227, can’t beat that. I’ve used a Para double-stack 1911, which had reliability and feeding issues my GLOCK 21 laughed at. Only FN and Springfield were able to match or beat that capacity, and both have their issues. The FN is too F’N expensive, and that grip is just painful without gloves. The XDm is great, right up until the weak little roll pin up top snaps, and you have an expensive paperweight. Truly GLOCK 21 is the best double-stack .45, and I love mine.
Wait, GLOCK makes other calibers other than 45? Weird, why would they do that?
I own 3 glocks all in .40. Bring on the hate – I love them all. Daily carry though is a s&w .38.
Is it me or is Beretta just not present in any of these conversations? I feel like I have no one to talk to.
/semi-sarcasm
Almost sounded like a “corner of Florence and Normandie” story.
Joe, I should mail you the Precision Armament brake off my Mosin for you to comparison test on the Steyr. Same thread size & I have the shim kit so you can clock it right.
Because that’s much too simple and productive.
Just like a liberal. Spend more money on stupid shit and raise our taxes. Great.
“Now is the Time” link is the same propaganda anti gunners like to spew. It made my head hurt to read the page. Gov’t sponsored misinformation. Sigh.
The more I try to get away, Glock pulls me back in. I don’t usually end sentences with prepositions, but in this case it is just right. After escaping the gun tyranny of the Northeast, I went out and bought a Glock 22 in 1993. I still have it, it still goes bang. Though I have been admittedly unfaithful at times, I still return. I have several pistols now, some that shoot better, Glocks have turned out to be the great utilitarian tools that are relatively inexpensive and useful on a daily basis.
And I wonder every day why Holder hasn’t been arrested for his crimes…
Glocks are great!
My grandma loves hers!
I carry a 1911 blah blah blah.
best gun ever blah blah blah.
your Tupperware gun is junk blah blah.
but seriously my 1911 is a tack driver, never shot better with anything else.
does that make me one of those aholes now?
but even those aholes don’t like me because I didn’t drop $2000 on a gun.
🙁
It’s like a bad movie except that it’s true.
Cold. Dead. Hands.
How about “FALSE ARREST!”
Is it just me, or does anyone else have a problem with complying
with police if they can’t even come up with a reason to arrest you?
I know some states have ‘must comply’ statutes but this case
definitely seems to fall under the false (illegal?) arrest category.
That’s the 64 dollar question. Unless I feel the cop is going to murder me, then I’m complying. Much as it may gall, fighting in the court is better than fighting in the street.
Each person has to decide for themselves and every situation is different. But to resist is to potentially add heavy charges and years in prison. the cop will have backup within moments. You will not.
And even if the first cop was wrong, all the responding cops are going to see is a brother in distress.
This. Or they sic the dog on you, and shoot you for fighting for your life.
At least he’s not suggesting that the RFID technology used to enable guns could be used to track you or to find all the guns and gun owners. He’s also not suggesting that the technology could be used to universally disable guns remotely like by satellite or from government helicopters.
So, at least there’s no talk of anything like that. He’s just talking common sense.
No real mention of this on the state controlled media. More IMPACT on America than Ukraine. Good luck to the Mexican people. I wish I could help.
With you too ! Be prepared and ready . Keep your powder dry .
“I’ll be back.”
Dark Hammer would have loved to have one of these!
One thing for sure, the recoil makes this a vehicle or boat mounted item at its smallest usable version….Newtons third kinda sucks!
If one person knows you and calls you a gun nut there’s room for doubt. When everybody that knows you calls you a gun nut…..
And people pull you like an expert witness in a court trial. My sister just emailed me from georgia and asked if a story about a b17 crew surviving getting shot up by german fighters because the slave labor in the german factories were sabotaging the ammo during production was true.
In my circle, it’s just taken for granted I will know the answers to this stuff.