(June 05, 2014 - 3:34pm)
-- A gunman opened fire at Seattle Pacific University Thursday afternoon, killing one person and wounding two others before being pepper-sprayed and disarmed by students. The wounded were rushed to Harborview Medical Center, where one victim, a man in his 20s, died shortly after arrival. A 20-year-old woman is in serious condition while another man was in satisfactory condition with minor injuries, hospital officials said. A fourth person who was not wounded but traumatized by the incident was also taken to Harborview.
The gunman walked into Otto Miller Hall just after 3 p.m. and opened fire on three people, said Capt. Chris Fowler with Seattle police. The gunman then began reloading when a student building monitor pepper-sprayed the shooter.
"The shooter began to reload his shotgun and the student building monitor inside the hall confronted the shooter and was able to subdue the individual," Fowler said. "Once on the ground, other students jumped on top of them and they were able to pin the shooter to the ground until police arrived."
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[H/T: Guns Save Lives]
FINALLY ---- someone did something to "Stop The Madness"; he dropped the shooter before he could cause more injuries and deaths.
USA Today identified the Man of the Hour:
On Twitter, many Seattle Pacific students identified the student who pepper-sprayed and subdued the suspect as John Meis, an engineering student, and called him a hero.John Meis is indeed a hero; we need more people who are willing to step forward and DO SOMETHING to stop these madmen. Running and hiding are responses of little value. "These People" who do these things will not stop until they run out of targets, ammunition, or time.
Time is the critical factor, for those who want to survive.
Screw the talk about "get rid of the guns"; laws are not the answer.
Guns are not the problem. People are the problem.
And people ... such as the brave and quick-thinking John Meis ... are the answer.
We can only hope that while the other responding students had the shooter down in a dog-pile, they kicked his ass. That's a fully legal response to an asshole trying to kill people, and as Rahm Emanuel should have said:
"Never let a satisfyingly retributive crisis-response opportunity go to waste".
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