Man who opened fire on Texas church shooter hailed as 'good Samaritan'

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88. Your changing your stance a bit now

You can’t make an asinine statement and then say “but don’t call me out on it”. You said don’t call
Me out for saying it doesn’t count, and I didn’t, I called you out for trying to say he meant something other than to kill when he shot at him. That is what you meant when you brought up his “intent” in shooting at him is it not?

Saying his intent is unknown is an accurate statement.

But your initial post I responded to you claimed the weight of the evidence was that you knew his intent and he wasn’t going to kill anybody.

That part simply isn’t accurate. There is no evidence that points to that as strongly as you claim. When I view his actions given my training and experience I see if anything indications of the opposite, although as he is dead absent more knowledge from documents or his phone we don’t know for sure.

Not sure why the question about my experience, but here you are. In LE I fired my weapon once in 11 years. At a car with 2 suspects that had led another agency on a high speed chase and then when cornered started ramming a car with an officer inside and tried to run over another who was on foot. Twice if putting a wounded deer out of its misery counts. I was also in several other life threatening situations where I didn’t fire because I was able to resolve it with other means or one where I would have if I had been able to draw my pistol but I wasn’t (this was a young man in a psychotic break whose grandparents intentionally didn’t call in as a violent psychotic break so I came in not expecting it and he surprised my 2 feet away with a knife). My experience in Afghanistan was no direct combat myself although I was in convoys that did take small arms fire- but it was just harassing fire we didn’t even slow down for.

It’s fine to say we don’t know his intent. That’s a valid statement. But to spin it as you know or are reasonably sure he wouldn’t have harmed anyone by that point simply isn’t supported by the facts.