The Trace Celebrates Armed Student Who Didn’t Intervene in Umpqua Community College Spree Killing

By Robert Farago

Armed Americans have no legal obligation to stop a spree killer or any other person committing a violent act. While many members gun owners would feel morally compelled to use their firearm to intervene, morality is a personal issue. There are many good and justifiable reasons to move away from an active shooter, whether you’re armed or not. In any case, The Trace‘s decision to name John Parker, Jr. [shown sheepishly above] as one of 10 Americans Who Shaped the Gun Debate This Year highlights the anti-gun agitprop propagators’ abject amorality. Like this . . .

On October 1, as a student opened fire on a classroom at Umpqua Community College, in Roseburg, Oregon, another student named John Parker, Jr., decided not to intervene. At the time of the shooting, the Air Force veteran was elsewhere on campus and carrying a concealed firearm, making him the proverbial “good guy with a gun,” whom Second Amendment advocates often imagine saving the day in the event of an active shooting. “Luckily we made the choice not to get involved,” Parker told MSNBC. “We were quite a distance away from the actual building where it was happening, which would have opened us up to …Read the Rest

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