Why would a 73-year-old grandfather of eleven interfere with a robber choking a young woman and in the process get himself bloodied and have his pickup stolen out from under him?
This from westernjournal.com.
I don’t have any choice.
Simon Mancilla Sr. said about his attempts to aid a woman accosted outside a North Houston check-cashing store earlier this month, KHOU reported.
Hey, man…don’t make a problem.
Mancilla recalled speaking from his truck to the armed robber.
The gunman then forced Mancilla out of his pickup, and Mancilla fought back. He and the robber exchanged blows, with Mancilla being hit in the head with a pistol and eventually falling to the ground.
Despite the efforts of two other good Samaritans who came to the scuffle, the robber managed to take off in Mancilla’s truck—even as one of the Samaritans briefly clung to its side.
Mancilla never saw the men coming to his aid since, according to his son:
His eyes were full of blood, he couldn’t see anyone.
Mancilla required several stitches.
Houston police released a video of the incident caught on a nearby cell phone.
The gunman had grabbed the young woman who had just left the check cashing store when Mancilla got involved.
Frequently—especially in places like Texas—there are stories of good guys with guns stopping criminals.
But Mancilla is a special kind of good guy: A good guy without a gun trying to stop a bad guy with a gun.
That’s bravery. And contrary to what many may be thinking, it is not stupidity.
It’s described as ‘Doing the next right thing.’ And the truly good people in this world do what must be done when needed, no questions asked.
While, for the time being, it cost him his pickup and some stitches, at least it didn’t cost him his life.
And it’s a good thing he’s in a state that recognizes the right of self-defense and the honor of defending someone in trouble.
In a [radical blue state], he might have been charged with assaulting the poor little bad guy.
That upside-down kind of world is causing many people to leave their democrat communist states and move to places like Texas.
Because if they get attacked by a bad guy at least there will be recognition of what is the right thing to do.
And the odds are greater that someone like Simon Mancilla will step forward and do the next right thing.
May God bless America.
