On December 1st, a Maine food truck operator may have saved lives when he used his legally owned and carried sidearm to engage and stop a knife-wielding man who was threatening to stab passersby and motorists.
This from redstate.com.
That’s a good thing, and one that the legacy media routinely overlooks—or flat-out pretends did not happen.
To wit, this story has not received National attention until today.
A Maine food truck owner said he shot and injured a man in self-defense after the man wielded a knife at motorists and threatened to kill people ahead of a holiday parade in the New England town.
Addy’s food truck owner David Poto told Fox News Digital of the incident that unfolded on Dec. 1:
You always anticipate dealing with danger in a certain way, but you never know how you will react or how it would play out until you actually live it. It all happened so fast but in slow motion at the same time.
Poto and his family were setting up their food truck business in Sanford in the late afternoon on Dec. 1, ahead of the town’s Christmas tree lighting event and “Holly Daze” parade, when Poto spotted the man.
Poto told the Portsmouth Herald:
[H]e witnessed the unidentified man wielding a knife at motorists and threatening to kill them.
He initially confronted the man without showing him he was holding a concealed firearm behind his leg.
Mr. Poto showed great restraint, and even greater marksmanship:
He said that out of fear for his family’s safety and his own, he fired his gun and struck the man in the leg.
He explained:
I was trying to avoid his arteries. I didn’t want to kill him.
Having been around firearms all my life, I’d normally caution against the old ‘shoot to wound’ tactic employed here; if you’re at such a pass that you must fire in self-defense, you should target center mass.
But I would also caution against second-guessing.
Mr. Poto showed not only restraint but an amazingly clear-headed approach to the encounter; he kept his cool, employed what force was necessary, and almost certainly saved the lives and well-being of others in the area. Good for him.
The legacy media hates incidents like this. Self-defense is one of the reasons (not the only one) that the Second Amendment exists and despite the maundering of a certain dementia-raddled public figure, guns in the hands of law-abiding private citizens ensure not only our domestic security but our political security as well.
No less an intellect than Thomas Jefferson, in his “Commonplace Book,” stated:
The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such a nature. They disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes…. Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.
Poto’s quick and decisive actions are precisely what Jefferson was writing about.
