Armed Florida Citizen Stops Park Shooting, Proves Past Naysayers Wrong

By Tom Knighton

Every single time gun rights have been expanded, anti-gun activists have claimed that the streets would run red with blood. Sometimes, those were their exact words but others, they used some variation of it. Time and time again, they have claimed that expanding when and where law-abiding citizens could carry guns would result in a bloodbath.

For example, I remember when Florida was first considering allowing people with permits to carry weapons in public parks. Anti-gunners were outraged at the notion. “Who needs a gun in a park where children are playing?” some demanded to know.

Well, it looks like someone did, and thank the Lord that he was carrying.

A back-to-school backpack giveaway in Titusville was interrupted by gunfire Saturday.

Authorities said a man who was involved in a fistfight at Isaac Campbell Park left and came back with a gun.

The park wasethe site of the backpack giveaway involving dozens of kids. When the man began shooting, a bystander, who was licensed to carry a firearm, fired back, wounding the shooter.

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Police said his gun was recovered at the scene and the bystander has been cooperating with them.

In other words, despite all the claims that no one “needed” a gun at …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms