When you only have seconds to spare, the police are only minutes away.
And that is why I conceal carry. Because if I had pulled up on this scene of a man beating, stomping, and kicking to death a one year old infant, I would not have hesitated to put several new holes into his body:
TURLOCK, Calif. (AP) - A 27-year-old man was fatally shot by police as he kicked, punched and stomped an approximately 1 year-old child to death in front of horrified motorists who tried to stop the attack on a dark country road, authorities said.
At 10:13 p.m. Saturday, a truck caught the attention of an elderly couple because it was stopped in the two-lane road facing the wrong direction, county sheriff’s deputy Royjindar Singh said.
As they got closer, the couple saw the man brutally beating the baby behind his truck and throwing the child on the ground, according to Singh. Two or three other cars stopped, an unusual number to be passing through the remote area surrounded by a dairy, a cow pasture, a cornfield and a farmhouse, he said.
“What we got from witnesses is he was punching, slapping, kicking, stomping, shaking,” Singh said. “They tried to intervene and get involved, but their efforts really didn’t have an effect. The suspect was engaged in what he was doing. He just pushed them off and went back to it.”
A sheriff’s helicopter responding to emergency calls from the area landed in a cow pasture at 10:19 p.m. The helicopter was used to illuminate the suspect, and they ordered him to cease and desist. He continued his savage attack on the baby. A Modesto police officer who had exited the helicopter then shot the man to death, Singh said.
Paramedics tried to resuscitate the baby, who was not breathing when they arrived. The boy was taken to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Two or three car fulls of people (even if there was only one person per car) couldn’t stop this man from beating a baby to death?
Well, they didn’t try fucking hard enough. They should have been throwing their bodies at that man. They should have pulled tire irons out of their cars to beat him with.
Anything.
Which again is why I carry. Police were only minutes away. Imagine if the very first motorist had been legally carrying a handgun. And they had used it immediately.
That poor baby might still be alive.
This story makes me absolutely sick to my stomach. Thank god the guy is dead.
Yep, the first couple that stopped and called the police were elderly and I could see them being afraid. But, I don’t know why the others couldn’t have helped. I would have gotten my tire iron out on him. I would also ask people to help me distract him and someone else grab the baby and lock themselves in a car. Another way would have been to briefly get him away from the baby and drive your car over the baby to protect him and them someone in another car run the guy over, back up, run him over again, back up, and run him over again ….
As you can see, I’ve been thinking about this a lot.
Left by Anonymous on June 16th, 2008 at 6:28 pm