Juanita Broaddrick, author of Better Put Some Ice on That: How I Survived Being Raped by Bill Clinton, tweeted praise for the practice of carrying concealed for self-defense Thursday, citing the time an Ohio judge who was ambushed pulled a gun and killed his attacker.
The ambush Broaddrick is referencing occurred on August 21, 2017, when Jefferson County Court of Common Pleas Judge Joseph Bruzzese was ambushed outside the courthouse.
Jacksonville.com reported that attacker was lying in wait, then “ran up to the judge and began shooting when he approached the courthouse.”
Bruzzese drew his own gun, as did a probation officer, and both returned fire, striking the attacker three times and killing him.
Similar “good guy with a gun” stories happen again and again all over the U.S.
For example, on July 17, 2022, Breitbart News noted that 22-year-old Elisjsha Dicken was in the food court of Indiana’s Greenwood Park Mall when an attempted mass shooter opened fire. Dicken pulled his concealed carry handgun and returned fire, killing the attacker and ending the threat to innocent life.
Twenty-two-year-old Elisjsha Dicken is being praised for shooting and stopping Sunday’s mass shooter in Indiana’s Greenwood Park Mall. (Facebook)
A customer checks a door on the closed Greenwood Park Mall in Greenwood, Indiana, Monday, July 18, 2022. The mall was closed Monday after police say three people were fatally shot and two were injured, including a 12-year-old girl, after a man with a rifle opened fire in a food court before an armed civilian shot and killed him. (Michael Conroy/AP)
On March 22, 2015, a concealed carry permit holder drew his gun and opened fire on an attacker who was spraying bullets at patrons and children inside a Philadelphia barber shop. The concealed carrier happened to be walking by the barber shop and heard the gunfire. He then ran inside and shot and fatally wounded the attacker.
On July 14, 2022, Breitbart News pointed to a study from the Crime Prevention Research Center — which the Center explains is not comprehensive — highlighting over 60 instances in which a concealed carry permit holder stopped a mass shooter.
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