When Guns Stopped A Massacre

By Dick Morris on July 31, 2012
http://www.dickmorris.com/when-guns-stopped-a-massacre/

On February 12, 2007, a lone gunman, Sulejman Talovic opened fire at
the crowded Trolley Square shopping mall killing five bystanders.
Armed with a shotgun with a pistol grip, a 38-caliber handgun with
rubber grips, and a backpack full of ammunition, he set forth on his
rampage through the Mall.

But he did not get as far as he had hoped. He was stopped when
off-duty police officer Kenneth Hammond of the Ogden City Police
Department who was at Trolley Square having an early Valentine s Day
dinner with his pregnant wife. When they heard shots, she called 911
and he drew his weapon and confronted Talovic. He was joined by Sgt.
Andrew Oblad of the Salt Lake City Police Department. They pinned down
Talovic, stopping further deaths, until a SWAT team from the Salt Lake
City Police Department killed him.

Hammond, a man with a weapon, was credited with saving countless
lives.

In Aurora, Colorado, there were no armed bystanders and Holmes was
unimpeded in his deadly rampage. Gun control advocates use the grizzly
story of the Aurora movie theater to push their cause. But common
sense tells us that it is easier to put guns into the hands of
law-abiding citizens and to instruct them in their use than to keep
them away from the insane or evil people who perpetrate these
shootings.

If the movie-goers in Aurora had one or two armed and trained men or
women, the shooting would have gone the way of the Trolley Square
massacre, not the bloodier outcome in Aurora.

CB
Chicago: The city s murder rate is up about 35 percent compared to the
same time last year. There were nine homicides last weekend and
about 50 shootings.

"Compared to the previous two weekends, we re doing okay"
  --Chicago Police Supt. Garry McCarthy

The stench of Progressive Liberalism grows accustomed to violent
death. The result of the Democrat Party's Eugenics program that took
the shame outz'duh having bastard chillins.