I'm watching headline news last night and they had a story about a car that ran off a bridge into icy water upside down somewhere up north with 3 young kids in it. Anyway long story short the dad was swimming around trying to get into the back seat and couldn't and a bunch of people stopped and dove in and ended up saving the children.
Well they are interviewing one of the heros, who happened to be the first on the scene (after the dad) and apparently he carries concealed. Anyway the commentator asks him to go through the story and he gets to the part where he and the dad can't open the back door, they try to punch the windows out and can't so he says "I took out my gun put it underwater up to the back window and fired and the window shattered" ....
Well the guy on HLN, looks shocked stops him and says "Wait why did you use a gun couldn't you have used something else to break the window". The hero says "Well I had my gun I didn't have a crowbar or anything else on me and there wasn't time to get something else". Then he goes on to give the rest of the story of how they pulled the three kids out. 2 of the three were unconscious and blue by the time they got them out but all 3 lived.
It really put a good face on guys who carry and certainly 3 lives were saved because this guy had a gun on him. Beauty of it is the commentator before the story began made a big deal out of this average joe being a hero, even saying "Don't say you aren't a hero, you are".
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