Saturday FGS
Armed Utah Teacher Stops Playground Kidnapping Attempt
By Dan Zimmerman
Wait…we’ve been told by all of the smartest people that teachers and other school staff members carrying firearms is inherently dangerous and irresponsible. They’ve assured us that the very concept of a good guy with a gun is nothing but gun lobby propaganda and never plays out in real life.Dateline: Ogden, Utah . . .
An armed school employee thwarted a kidnapping Tuesday after he confronted a man on a playground with his gun, according to police.
The situation started about 2:30 p.m. at an unidentified elementary school in Ogden.
Ira Cox-Berry, 41, approached and grabbed a student, an 11-year-old girl, who was playing on the playground, police said. Cox-Berry allegedly pulled the girl away as if he was trying to leave with her, but a school employee approached Cox-Berry and demanded that he leave the school.
The unidentified teacher stopped the abduction and herded the rest of the kids into a classroom. But Cox-Berry was apparently determined to grab a kid.
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“Guns in schools is not something Americans want or something they’re asking for,” Shannon Watts, the founder of gun safety group Moms Demand Action, told ThinkProgress.
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This Hero Teacher taught a very valuable lesson to the students. A Good Guy with a gun beats all hell out of a perp that is “…eyeing little girls with bad intents.” Should of went ahead and shot the bastard pervert.
Cute little rib tickler you gots there Mister. That push handle would give some good leverage for making a twisting motion on the pull out stage of the sticking it into a well deserving enemy.
“Shannon Watts in schools is not something Americans want or something they’re asking for,”
Professional PR woman who has latched onto a very lucrative thing. Wonder how much Bloomberg is paying her?
One of my favourite scenes in ‘Olympus Has Fallen (2013)’ – when Mike Banning(Gerard Butler) comes out of the shadows to attack one of the NK bad-guys with a similar push-dagger – wherein our Mister Banning turns little NK shits’ chest into a terminal oozing sieve… To paraphrase our Rocket the Raccoon in Guardians of the Galaxy “I live for the simple things in Life…like how much this is gonna hurt”. BZ to the Ogden Utah school employee – for his level-headed of prescience and his prompt reactions.
I remember a time when ending sentences with prepositions was something folks didn’t want in schools.
Not a Berry Berry good idea for Berry to try and snatch the kid, and a Berry good thing that the armed school employee was there to help.