Legally Armed Citizen Stops Knife-Wielding Lunatic

8 stabbed at grocery store, co-worker arrested

Friday, July 21, 2006; Posted: 7:38 p.m. EDT (23:38 GMT)

ARLINGTON, Tennessee (AP) -- A knife-wielding grocery store employee attacked eight co-workers Friday, seriously injuring five before a witness pulled a gun and stopped him, police said.

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Cope said he grabbed a 9mm semiautomatic pistol from his pickup truck when he saw the attacker chasing the victim "like something in a serial killer movie."

"When he turned around and saw my pistol, he threw the knife away, put his hands up and got on the ground," Cope told The Associated Press. "He saw my gun and that was pretty much it."

Police arrived within minutes and took the attacker into custody.

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The best part about this is that a shot never had to be fired.

I promise to post every single article I run across that describes legally licensed citizens engaging in all of the shoot-outs over parking spaces the anti-gun folks predicted. Unfortunately, they're really hard to come by... I don't know of any.

I also promise to not post every article like this one, because I see one at least three to four times a week.