
Perhaps in passing you heard of a horrible incident in Memphis, Tennessee last week where a 21-year old nut case stabbed five co-workers with a knife.
What you didn’t hear was how the offender was stopped. The knife wielding psycho’s reign of terror was ended not by the police but by the manager of a financial services office in the same small shopping center who retrieved a 9 MM handgun from his car.
The violence was ended without firing a single shot. The hero manager is a fellow by the name of Chris Cope. Perhaps you’ve not ever heard or read his name before now because he demonstrated what gun owners know. Guns very often save lives without ever firing a shot. I guess Cope’s success and heroism was not newsworthy.
Here is the only news report I could find.
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http://www.myeyewitnessnews.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=BAF40F83-71D0-4F0C-98A6-37CA8E48813E
http://differentriver.com/archives/2006/07/21/
http://www.pensacolanewsjournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060723/NEWS01/607230327/1006
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/nation/4064673.html
http://www.wkyc.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=54712
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=domesticNews&storyID=2006-07-21T195646Z_01_N21192766_RTRUKOC_0_US-CRIME-STABBINGS.xml&WTmodLoc=NewsHome-C3-domesticNews-3
http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060722/NEWS/607220344/1006/SPORTS
Thanks to the gun owner!!