{"id":35104,"date":"2013-04-14T19:10:49","date_gmt":"2013-04-14T23:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=35104"},"modified":"2013-04-14T21:15:25","modified_gmt":"2013-04-15T01:15:25","slug":"marine-was-a-good-guy-with-a-gun-saves-lives-gives-his-own","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=35104","title":{"rendered":"Marine was a good guy with a gun; saves lives, gives his own"},"content":{"rendered":"

CavRick sends us a link to the story of 39-year-old former Marine, Todd North, who was working as a bouncer at a bar in Havelock, NC, when, Jonathan Richard Pugh, an 18-year-old, who had been bounced from the bar for fighting and for being underaged, returned with a gun and began blasting away at the crowd. From The Sun Journal<\/a>;<\/p>\n

\u201c[Pugh] apparently calmed down [after the confrontation with bouncers] and left the parking lot in a car, but shortly afterward came back, walked to the door and started firing,\u201d [District Attorney Scott Thomas] said. \u201cNorth fired back, attempting to keep Pugh from entering the bar, but was shot three or four times. His body will undergo an autopsy on Monday.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pugh got in his car and drove away.<\/p>\n

Havelock Police responded about 1:13 a.m. Sunday to the call of shots fired at Flyers bar and secured the scene as Havelock EMS Paramedics arrived and began to treat the wounded.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

North was hit three or four times, but got off a shot with a .45 caliber round into Pugh’s torso. Police recovered five shell casings at the scene that matched Pugh’s gun. Two other people were wounded directly by bullets, three by bullet fragments, so its pretty obvious to me that North protected the bar crowd with his own body and his gun. A Marine to the end.<\/p>\n

Of course, this doesn’t count as a good guy with a gun making a difference in a mass shooting, because Mother Jones<\/a> only counts shootings with four or more deaths.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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