BPR: Law-abiding Costco shopper shoots dead a crazy man with a gun, preventing a really black Friday.
Score another win for the Second Amendment. Here’s a bit of news you wont hear about on CNN.
Shoppers at a Costco outside of Kansas City owe their lives to an off-duty police officer.
An unidentified man wielding a firearm walked into the Lenexa, Kansas store shortly after 11am on Sunday, Fox 4 Kansas City reported.
Ryan Vacca, an employee at the Costco photo center and an eye-witness to the incident, said the assailant entered the store suddenly.
“I was looking at the computer screen, and then I heard some commotion happening around me,” he told Fox4. “I turned and looked at the front door and saw a guy walking in – just kind of yelling and screaming”
Vacca went on to say “one of my co-workers told me to drop, and I did.”
Many of the people shopping inside the Costco rushed to the exits at the sight of danger. But one man did the opposite.
An unnamed, off-duty police officer was at the same store — and he happened to be carrying his gun. MORE
I wouldn’t know if it made national news or not…I haven’t watched “Main Stream News” in many years now.
“…and he happened to be carrying his gun.”
As any competent citizen should.
Too bad Hilary wasn’t there signing books.
Kansas City, never mind, bet Hillary thinks it’s in Kansas.
WHERE IS YOUR GUN!?
Stop giving blubbering stories about fear, running for exits, finding places to hide, calling 911. Pull out your gun and defend yourself.
Here’s why:
~The police may not get there in time to save you.
~The police may have other emergencies.
~There may be too much traffic to get to you.
~You may not have a phone.
~There may not be service where you are.
~You don’t have time to wait.
You carry a POLICE OFFICER ON YOUR HIP where ever you go.
STOP BEING VICTIMS!
A feel good story, thanks!
Hold on. Our Costco has a “NO GUNS” sign by the front door. If you go to Costco web site they have a no CCW policy. The “Good Guy With a Gun” was a cop. All he needs to do is flash them his badge and he’s in. Now I’ve carried before in Costco. But we shop there at a minimum. I don’t support “No Gun Merchants” and I don’t feel safe in No Gun Zones.
Yeah, open, then she could really dodge snipe(r) fire.
@Bad_Brad – FYI, the Costco stores here in Florida have no signs. The one I go to is a mall anchor, and the mall has no signs. I do know that the Costco membership policies prohibit weapons but in my many years of membership I’ve not once seen it enforced.
My take on Costco is that their lawyers convinced the other suits to put a no guns policy in the fine print, but that the suits leave it up to individual store managers to decide how it should go given the communities they do business in. I don’t like it, but in such a case I will cut them a bit of slack.
I did see one of their truck drivers carrying a few months back. Florida has outlawed open carry, but this guy’s shirt rode up just a bit. Good thing a cop didn’t see that: the U.S. Supremes just denied certiorari on a similar situation where the armed guy got busted simply for showing a little bit of holster.
P.s. I’m armed every time I leave the house, very much including Costco runs.
Uncle Al
Maybe just our local stores manager. Our local Target use to have “No Guns” signs but enough complaints and they came down. The Costco store is in Sacramento County the Target store is in my county, El Dorado County which has the highest rate of ccw’s in the state. Before the target signs came down they were averaging some sort of crime in the parking lot at about a rate of 3 a month. The signs have been down now for over a year and I haven’t heard any reports of crime there after they came down. The criminal element obviously pays attention.
CC cuts crime, is logical; therefore, liberals hate it
The Costco here in Colorado does not have a No Gun sign and I have seen people doing open carry inside more than once.