{"id":76223,"date":"2017-11-28T09:20:55","date_gmt":"2017-11-28T14:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=76223"},"modified":"2017-11-28T09:23:47","modified_gmt":"2017-11-28T14:23:47","slug":"good-guys-with-a-gun-stops-mass-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=76223","title":{"rendered":"Good guys with guns stop mass shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chooee sends us <a href=\"http:\/\/www.floridatoday.com\/story\/news\/crime\/2017\/11\/25\/police-discuss-rockledge-homicide-apprehension-gunman\/894502001\/\">a link to the story<\/a> of Robert Lorenzo Bailey Jr who took his .45 caliber pistol and several magazines full of ammunition and started blasting away in the parking lot of Schlenker Automotive in Rockledge, Florida. Bailey was able to kill one person and injure another before the employees of Schenkler sprang into action.<\/p>\n<p>The manager of the shop, a concealed weapon permit holder, opened fire on Bailey who then charged the manager. The manager fled the parking lot with Bailey in hot pursuit, distracted from his attack in the parking lot. Another employee, who was also legally armed then engaged Bailey with  gunfire and struck him twice, effectively ending his assault.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;If not for the brave, quick thinking of the employees at Schlenker, this could have been a lot worse,&#8221; [Rockledge police chief Joseph La Sata] said. &#8220;Mr. Bailey had multiple magazines on his person. He was intent on doing harm. The employees stepped up.&#8221;  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, you won&#8217;t read much about this in the national media because it wasn&#8217;t bloody enough, and then there&#8217;s the inconvenience of Americans protecting themselves before the police could arrive.<\/p>\n<p>Roger Lee Smith, 50, was killed in the parking lot and another unnamed employee was paralyzed by his injuries resulting from Bailey&#8217;s murderous rampage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chooee sends us a link to the story of Robert Lorenzo Bailey Jr who took his &hellip; <a title=\"Good guys with guns stop mass shooting\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=76223\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Good guys with guns stop mass shooting<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26210,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76223","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=76223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}