David Hogg recently told us that “good guys with guns” stopping “bad guys with guns” is just a narrative crafted to sell more guns.
Um… tell that to the father who stopped a masked gunman at an Alabama McDonald’s… WITH HIS GUN.
An armed father is being hailed as a hero after he shot dead a masked gunman who opened fire at a McDonald’s in Alabama over the weekend.
RIIIGHT.
What was that? About good guys with guns?
The Birmingham store’s manager had been unlocking the door so that the father and his two teenage sons could leave around 10.45pm on Saturday when the gunman suddenly burst inside.
Two witnesses said they heard more than a dozen shots as the gunman opened fire on the restaurant.
But the father was also carrying a weapon and was able to quickly return fire. He struck the shooter, who later died from his injuries.
The father and one of his sons had also been hit during the shooting and were taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
He was protecting his SONS.
Employees were hiding in the freezer:
Markus Washington was finishing up his shift at the restaurant when he heard gunfire.
‘I was making two quarter-pounders and heard three shots ring,’ he told WBRC.
Washington and another employee ran into the store’s kitchen and hid in the freezer as he continued to hear more shots being fired.
‘All we hear is like different gunfire, so in my mind, I’m imagining everybody is dead,’ Washington said.
One woman who had just ordered food at the drive-thru heard eight or nine shots ring out, she told AL.com.
She then saw people running out of the McDonald’s, including children, before hearing two more shots fired.
The father and his son are recovering in the hospital. The gunman was pronounced dead.
Police have yet to release the names of the gunman or the man who took him down.
It also remains unknown if the shooting happened during a robbery, or if the gunman was trying to target an employee inside the restaurant.
Good riddance.