The NRA and the extreme right would have us believe that the only way for our society to combat crime is to have an untrained, untethered vigilante militia of “patriots” armed to the teeth in public at all times. The same people who believe all life is sacred, therefore women should be regulated and controlled, are the same who would just love to play Oliver Queen with guns at the first given chance.
They push so hard for guns as the final solution they’d have you believe that good guys are out there thwarting crime daily, when exactly the opposite is true.
Vigilantes with guns will cause more death than they will prevent, all so they can feel like tough guys over a few bucks or a wallet. There’s a reason why every single training video for people who run a cash drawer teaches them to give armed robbers what they want and pay attention to what they look like, which direction they fled, and what they were wearing. Dead people make horrible witnesses.
The fireman in this video is also a United States Marine, and as such he’s trained in deadly situations and how to handle them. You can see him in a matter of seconds look the thief up and down, assess the situation and take appropriate action, subduing him until police arrive.
Had that been a right-wing gun nut he’d have taken a few steps back, pulled out his weapon and showered the area in front of him with bullets, executing a kid for armed robbery and probably losing the store clerk as collateral damage.
And by tomorrow he’d be the number one hero on The Blaze.
Watch this firefighter take the right steps to take out a thief using wits and strength, not guns.
Featured image via screen capture
Shades of Sheriff Andy, all without a gun.
Today’s American Cop can learn something from this man.
Priceless reactions, including when the boy stepped in front of him. Awesome, able gentleman.
Firemen rock, cops suck.
just because a huge guy takes down someone with a gun do-sent mean it will be easy for everyone else,martial arts like firearms are an option to approach a situation and also a great equalizer of sorts,you could give all the lessons in the world to someone who has a physical aliment,disability,is physically weak or lacking in height, but usually a thug who has been doing that all their life will supersede all those lessons,just because you got a crap ton of lessons in the dojo isnt the sure fire way that youll stop a street thug attacker theres too many variables going on
The “huge” guy that took the thug down was/is a Marine, a very well trained Marine at that. Did you READ the story? By the way the word doesn’t is NOT do-sent, arghh
It seems more like you’re not reading. Try going over his comment again. He’s got a good point… given you actually understand it.
Martial arts are cute, but this dude was a U.S. Marine. They eat “career criminals” and “street thugs” for breakfast with a slice of Taliban for dessert.
LOVE THIS. MY SON WAS JUST TEACHING A SIMILAR TECHNIQUE TO HIS MARTIAL ARTS CLASS. IN 2 SECONDS HE TOOK DOWN A GUY POINTING A GUN RIGHT AT HIS HEAD. I ALWAYS STRESS THAT MARTIAL ARTS ARE ALWAYS ON YOU , UNLIKE A GUN.
Except martial arts are worth nothing 10 or more feet away from the problem.
WELL THEN, I GUESS YOU BETTER STAY CLOSER TO THE PROBLEM.
Neither is a man with a gun who can’t aim.
Stupid of the thief to push a big guy out of the way and then leave him standing there as a threat behind him…
No one said criminals have brains, lol.
That’s your take on this?
At least I have a take on it, rather than you who just makes a non-comment underneath somebody elses.
Would you prefer me to bleat on about how much of a hero the big guy is, that he could basically grab anything in the shop and smack him unconscious from behind, or make the robber shoot the gun into the assistants head by such a foolhardy move for what would amount to a few hundred dollars at most if he misjudged it?
This guy is not so much a hero as a guy who put others in danger by his macho bullshit, we do not know the circumstances out of camera shot
I made my comment because that is the one thing that can be measured here, he was a fool for leaving a threat behind him.
Macho bullshit? I think not. You should of quit while you were ahead. Had he not done what he did something far worse could have happened. It was a ballsy move and I take my hat off to him. And you judge him? You’re a moron.
He IS a hero you ugly little POS wuss. STFU and try to be a MAN.
People are so quick to throw the ‘hero’ moniker around, you score a goal at a football match, you’re a hero…you take your turban off to put it on someones leg as they bleed a little, you’re a hero…you grab someone from behind as they are pointing a gun at someone else and almost cause them to shoot said gun into someone elses head, you’re a hero.
IT ONLY TAKES A FEW SECONDS TO PUT SOMEONE’S LIGHTS OUT WITH THE HOLD THE MARINE HAD ON HIM. THAT MOVE WAS THE SMARTEST AND SAFEST WAY TO HANDLE THE SITUATION. HE IS A HERO IN EVERY SENSE OF THE WORD.
Take? That’s what happened… Are you braindead?
are you a criminal and offended?
If the armed robber was “armed”, that was HIGHLY STUPID to give his back to another. he should have forced the Marine to go in front and throw himself on the floor, so that he could have his escape undettered.
Instead, he turned his back, allowing the Marine to grapple him and throw him to the floor.
I’m not seeing a gun in the kids possession at all at any point in the footage. I’m seeing only what could possibly be a knife… aside from the face cover he tosses initially? This hardly supports the antigun agenda, lol…
Dude must not have seen Pulp Fiction. This is what happens when you go light on crowd control.
Even “Right Wing Gun Nuts” especially big, fit ones might well use a similar tactic. But what about a more elderly, arthritic citizen? Does anyone expect him to wrestle with a young determined criminal?
I’ve decided the biggest difference between the far left and the far right is simple: The far right asks, What If? The far left lives in fantasy denial of reality.
Don’t agree? Think it out.
I love how the author says what, exactly, a gun have done when he has no clue.
I conceal carry and I know that, unless that guy had shot at me or someone else, the best I could have done is disarm him.
I would not have shot him at point blank or taken his life simply because I had a gun and the drop on him from behind.
No way.
THANK YOU.
This would be great in a perfect world where everybody was a skilled 200lb gymrat with some training in hand to hand, but sadly and realistically, it’s not. The vid also looks phoney and staged. I’m callin’ 100% BS on this on folks.
Anyone else mad it says right wing gun nut?
Every situation is different and this man made the assessment for this one and took care of business. In another situation , a gun might have been the only alternative. The author is the “nut” in this case, trying to show guns as not needed at all! What a La-la Land fool!
I agree this was a brave and appropriately non-lethal act on behalf of the man who intervened. Unfortunately not very many people are the size of this man nor have they had his military training. As a result most people would be basically helpless in the situation.
Talk about Illiterate PC gibberish. What an incredibly stupid and naive article.
I sincerely hope for his sake that Mr. Topher never has to try to defend himself against anyone with a gun. Obviously he really does live in some kind of bubble.