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this excerpt is from fox news. what jumped out at me was the bit about the armed guy with the c.c. permit who decided to "confront" the cop killers after the guy shot a round into the air inside the walmart. thats the problem with someone being armed legally but having no experience in actually firing his/her weapon with effect at another person. most people who do this, react, will end up dead or wounded. the only way to confront is to actually fire and put the threat down. something that is hard for a civilian to actually do.
a school near my home in the u.s. has now put all administration personnel through a 30 day self defense course and all of them will now be carrying a weapon at school. i am afraid of collateral damage from inexperienced firing if they are ever put in peril.
even experienced leo's have a poor hit rate while under threat.
Police were called to the Cici’s Pizza restaurant, about five miles northeast of the Las Vegas Strip, at 11:22 a.m. local time Sunday, shortly after the shooting spree began.
According to McMahill, Miller first entered the restaurant and walked around briefly before heading back out to the parking lot to meet his wife.
The pair then went back into Cici’s Pizza and walked towards the booth where Soldo and Beck were eating.
Jerad Miller pulled out a handgun and put it up to the back of Soldo’s head and blasted him once, killing Soldo instantly, and then shot Beck in the neck, McMahill said.
Beck reacted to the gunfire and was shot multiple times by Amanda Miller, who pulled a handgun out of her purse, McMahill added.
Sheriff Doug Gillespie said Beck was able to fire back at the suspects. Both officers were later pronounced dead at University Medical Center.
The duo then left the restaurant and walked over to a nearby Walmart, where Jerad Miller fired a shot into the air and told people to get out, shouting that it was “a revolution,” McMahill said.
Bystander Joseph Robert Wilcox, 31, who was carrying a concealed weapon inside the store, spotted Jerad Miller and told a friend he would confront him, according to authorities. As he neared Jerad, he was shot in the ribs by Amanda and later died, McMahill said.
Gillespie called the death “completely senseless.”
The couple then exchanged gunfire with officers in the back of the store and killed themselves in an apparent suicide pact, Las Vegas Police spokesman Larry Hadfield said.
McMahill said Amanda fired several rounds into Jerad then took her own life with a single shot to the head.
a school near my home in the u.s. has now put all administration personnel through a 30 day self defense course and all of them will now be carrying a weapon at school. i am afraid of collateral damage from inexperienced firing if they are ever put in peril.
even experienced leo's have a poor hit rate while under threat.
Police were called to the Cici’s Pizza restaurant, about five miles northeast of the Las Vegas Strip, at 11:22 a.m. local time Sunday, shortly after the shooting spree began.
According to McMahill, Miller first entered the restaurant and walked around briefly before heading back out to the parking lot to meet his wife.
The pair then went back into Cici’s Pizza and walked towards the booth where Soldo and Beck were eating.
Jerad Miller pulled out a handgun and put it up to the back of Soldo’s head and blasted him once, killing Soldo instantly, and then shot Beck in the neck, McMahill said.
Beck reacted to the gunfire and was shot multiple times by Amanda Miller, who pulled a handgun out of her purse, McMahill added.
Sheriff Doug Gillespie said Beck was able to fire back at the suspects. Both officers were later pronounced dead at University Medical Center.
The duo then left the restaurant and walked over to a nearby Walmart, where Jerad Miller fired a shot into the air and told people to get out, shouting that it was “a revolution,” McMahill said.
Bystander Joseph Robert Wilcox, 31, who was carrying a concealed weapon inside the store, spotted Jerad Miller and told a friend he would confront him, according to authorities. As he neared Jerad, he was shot in the ribs by Amanda and later died, McMahill said.
Gillespie called the death “completely senseless.”
The couple then exchanged gunfire with officers in the back of the store and killed themselves in an apparent suicide pact, Las Vegas Police spokesman Larry Hadfield said.
McMahill said Amanda fired several rounds into Jerad then took her own life with a single shot to the head.
