{"id":55810,"date":"2014-10-15T08:00:07","date_gmt":"2014-10-15T12:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=55810"},"modified":"2014-10-14T13:46:26","modified_gmt":"2014-10-14T17:46:26","slug":"william-lawler-saving-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=55810","title":{"rendered":"William Lawler saving the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the Philadelphia Daily News (by way of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/army\/army-vet-to-knife-wielding-man-i-don-t-want-to-shoot-you-1.308243\">Stars &#038; Stripes<\/a>) comes the story of William Lawler, a former Army lieutenant and a firearms instructor who was walking with his girlfriend in Philadelphia when they were confronted by Dondi DeCosta brandishing a 13-inch knife;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Right away, Lawler said, he moved his girlfriend away, unholstered his gun and held it at his side.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nine times out of 10, all the gun owner has to do is show the firearm, and the threat goes away,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Not this time: DeCosta instead moved toward the pair, Lawler said, threatening, &#8220;I&#8217;ll cut you up.&#8221; When he got within 5 or 6 feet, Lawler said, that was it. Lawler leveled the Glock and fired once, hitting DeCosta in the groin.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My intent was to stop him, not kill him,&#8221; Lawler said yesterday. &#8220;I hope he&#8217;s OK, and hopefully he will be prosecuted.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Mr DeCosta survived injuries and is safely removed from society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Philadelphia Daily News (by way of Stars &#038; Stripes) comes the story of William &hellip; <a title=\"William Lawler saving the world\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=55810\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">William Lawler saving the world<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40472,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[218],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feel-good-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}