We need to be reminded every now and then that shooting rampages can often be stopped as soon as they start — if only a good guy with a gun is on site and willing to use it.
Or good gal.
Dennis Butler, a 37-year-old with an “extensive criminal history,” recently targeted the attendees of a party in Charleston, West Virginia.
Earlier, someone at an apartment complex had asked Butler to drive more slowly because there were children around. This made him feel explosive rage. So he fetched a semi-automatic weapon that he owned illegally and started firing into a crowd of party-goers at the complex.
A woman with a gun and presence of mind happened to be at the party.
“She’s just a member of the community who was carrying her weapon lawfully,” says police spokesman Tony Hazlett. “And instead of running from the threat, she engaged with the threat and saved several lives.”
No one in the crowd was reported to be injured.
I hope that if this heroic woman had been carrying her weapon unlawfully, relevant authorities would have cut her some slack. But it’s good that she didn’t have to deal with such a complication.
Butler is dead — shot multiple times by the woman with a gun. Police haven’t reported her name.
Just as well. We wouldn’t want her to become a target of gun-control groups upset that she used a pistol rather than sharp words to dissuade Butler from killing everybody.
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Even if the police haven’t released the woman’s name, someone ‘without authority to comment publicly’ will give her name to the press. It’s the world we live in.
‘fraid so.
…and you won’t hear about it on the “news”.