Too bad he didn't shoot the bad guy fast.
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/breaking_news/132
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Dad calls son in mall shooting a hero
Nov. 22, 2005
CURT WOODWARD
Associated Press
TACOMA, Wash. - The father of the man most seriously wounded in a
shooting rampage at a shopping mall called his son a hero Tuesday
for drawing a pistol and confronting the gunman before being
shot.
Brendan "Dan" McKown, 38, was hit twice in the abdomen Sunday,
when a gunman opened fire on crowds in the Tacoma Mall before
ducking into a store and taking several hostages. The gunman
later surrendered and the hostages were released unharmed.
Roger McKown, 63, of Yelm, said his son has been licensed to
carry a firearm for years.
"Dan has been one that always believes in protecting other
people, and he put his life on the line for other people," he
said at a hospital news conference.
He said his son encountered the shooter while delivering a bank
deposit from the gift store where he works as assistant manager.
"He heard the shooting, and before he could ever take a defensive
mode or anything, it was right there," Roger McKown said.
Police spokesman Mark Fulghum said detectives don't know if
McKown simply brandished his handgun to show the gunman he was
armed, or if he was preparing to fire the weapon. Witnesses told
the family McKown was shot after he pulled the gun.
Doctors at Tacoma General Hospital believe McKown may have
suffered permanent paralysis because of spinal damage, hospital
spokesman Todd Kelley said. Five other people wounded in the
shooting have been released.
Dominick Maldonado, 20, of Tacoma, pleaded not guilty Monday to
assault, kidnapping and firearms charges for Sunday's shooting.
He was being held on $2 million bail.
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Ms Liberty - United States of America
"Only an armed people can be the real bulwark of popular liberty.
- Vladimir Lenin
A system of licensing and registration is the perfect device to
deny gun ownership to the bourgeoisie. - Lenin
"All our lives we fought against exalting the individual, against
the elevation of the single person." - Vladimir Lenin
"There is the great, silent, continuous struggle: the struggle
between the State and the Individual." -- Benito Mussolini
"The main plank in the National Socialist program is to abolish
the liberalistic concept of the individual" -- Adolph Hitler
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