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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: kmitch200 on December 15, 2012, 05:41:52 PM
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Clackamas man, armed, confronts mall shooter
PORTLAND -- Nick Meli is emotionally drained. The 22-year-old was at Clackamas Town Center with a friend and her baby when a masked man opened fire.
"I heard three shots and turned and looked at Casey and said, 'are you serious?,'" he said.
The friend and baby hit the floor. Meli, who has a concealed carry permit, positioned himself behind a pillar.
"He was working on his rifle," said Meli. "He kept pulling the charging handle and hitting the side."
The break in gunfire allowed Meli to pull out his own gun, but he never took his eyes off the shooter.
"As I was going down to pull, I saw someone in the back of the Charlotte move, and I knew if I fired and missed, I could hit them," he said.
Meli took cover inside a nearby store. He never pulled the trigger. He stands by that decision.
"I'm not beating myself up cause I didn't shoot him," said Meli. "I know after he saw me, I think the last shot he fired was the one he used on himself."
The gunman was dead, but not before taking two innocent lives with him and taking the innocence of everyone else.
"I don't ever want to see anyone that way ever," said Meli. "It just bothers me."
Video at link:
http://www.kgw.com/news/Clackamas-man-armed-confronts-mall-shooter-183593571.html
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Why hasn't this guy been on the news??
Might it be because it exposes that CCW holders aren't wannbe cowboys shooting wildly and yelling "yahoo!!"?
h/t to SF on Tam's blog.
on edit: Please circulate this link on every forum you visit!!
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Copied this and sent it on to my email list.
Thanks for the heads up.
Crusader
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I moved to Oregon about 9 1/2 years ago from Washington State and was surprised how much more pronounce the gun culture is down here. Add to that there are over 100,000 CCW permit holders in Oregon and that number is growing everyday (what was a 2-3 week turn around time this summer is 4-6 weeks now) and I am not surprised that one of our own was there. The problem is you'll never see this in the MSM let alone Fox News. Its up to us to get the information out, I'll share it on FB and I encourage others to do the same or like SH did and email it to everyone you know-this is one of Tom Gresham's "No Shrug" moments.
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When I shared this on FB I stated, "Not all who walk among you are unarmed and helpless." Yes it is an Uncle Ted paraphrase but its appropriate.
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Copied and sent to my entire address list.
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Rule #4.
Great job, man.