VIDEO: Deputy Takes Out Bad Guy With Cans Of Beans

By Tom Knighton

There’s an old saying, that a gun is only a tool, the man is the weapon. It makes sense when you think about it. A truly dangerous individual will be dangerous no matter what he has on his person, while a truly timid person could have any weapon on the planet and still be a potential victim.

However, a sheriff’s deputy in Florida kind of personified the old saw recently when he took down a bad guy with some cans of beans.

Thursday’s standoff between Sheriff Tommy Ford, Deputy Chief Joel Heape and Maj. Jimmy Stanford and a hammer-wielding man — which began with a call of a gunman and one person down — ended after Stanford snuck behind the suspect in a grocery aisle and hit him in the back with two cans of beans, authorities said Friday.

“I saw Jimmy poke his head out, the next thing I know he steps out with a can of Bush’s extra brown sugar baked beans and hits the suspect in the upper body and distracts him,” Ford said. “And then he does it again and the suspect … Joel was able to deflect his swing and lock his arm up. It …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms