Police officer's gifts of a cell phone and handgun save father's life in knife attack

[beevul]

Police officer's gifts of a cell phone and handgun save father's life in knife attack


JOHNNY CLARK, Associated Press Writer
4:40 PM PDT, June 17, 2009
ROSWELL, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia liquor store clerk credits his police officer son with giving him two life-saving gifts — a cell phone and a gun.

Joseph Wescott says the phone he slipped into his shirt pocket stopped a knife to his chest when a robbery suspect attacked him at the store in a northern Atlanta suburb. He then reached under the counter for the .40-caliber handgun and shot the man.


"The knife that he had looked like it was about 10-foot long," the 67-year-old Wescott exclaimed.

When the suspect lunged at Wescott, he fell back and the knife struck the battery area of the phone, the clerk said. He then fired one shot at the man Monday night.

"That was the first time I had ever fired that gun," he said.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-us-knife-attack-cell-phone,1,6552736.story

Those menz and thier gunz... :sarcasm:

Lucky he didn't have the gun taken from him and used against him as we all KNOW so commonly happens... :eyes:


(and for good measure):

The LA times is not a reliable source, they're just a mouthpiece for the nra... :sarcasm:


(I'm sure I forgot some of the standard replies, but that covers the most common, methinks)


Good for the father, I say.

[jgraz]

1. Perhaps we should scrap background checks

And only let someone buy a gun if they can demonstrate that they understand the meaning of "anecdotal evidence".

:eyes: indeed.

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

3. Could you talk to your buddy Michael about all his anecdotes?

[Deadric Damodred]

4. He already sorted that out for us in his other thread...

...by saying our side's anecdotes only make us look blood-thirsty. You see how that works? If they post an an anecdote, it's good and holy and makes a point. If our side posts an anecdote, it's bad and evil and pointless. That's real good logic right there: Our side's news counts, your's doesn't.

[proteus_lives]

2. Some people don't like the truth.

Guns save lives too.

To bad so many "liberals" have drank the gun-control kool-aid.