probably not what they meant

While Tennessee was (unsurprisingly) not subjected to rampant and out-of-control Wild-West-style shoot-outs yesterday, not everywhere was so lucky. However, I do not think this particular incident is what the anti-rights advocates had in mind when they coined the “Wild West shoot-out” phrase:

A gunman who had wounded a shopkeeper and opened fire on several customers was stopped yesterday when another man shot him at the store in South Richmond, authorities said.

The violent attempted robbery took place shortly after 1 p.m. at the Golden Food Market at 2701 Jefferson Davis Highway, the same store where another man was shot last month — and only three blocks from the scene of another robbery in June that left a shopkeeper dead.

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Trammell, who arrived outside the store shortly after yesterday’s shootings, described a frenzied scene. One man told Trammell that the man who had shot the robber was a guardian angel.

“Whoever did it probably saved their lives in there,” Trammell said of the shooter.

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The man who shot the robber is a friend of the store owner, and he was wearing a holster with a Western-style revolver, said Managing Deputy Commonwealth’s Attorney Tracy Thorne-Begland.

After the suspect shot the store owner and opened fire on patrons, the owner’s friend shot the suspect once in the torso, took his gun and called police, Thorne-Begland said.

(Emphasis added.)
The VCDL alert concerning this incident indicates that the guardian angel was using a single-action revolver chambered in .45 Colt – perhaps not quite as powerful as Michael’s sword, but certainly as classy.
And here, yet again, is a prime example of a lawfully-armed citizen effectively stopping an armed criminal, and potentially saving countless lives… while doing it with a remarkable amount of aplomb (using a single-action firearm for self-defense is a skill one does not come by lightly). Oh, and about that “Wild West” meme? I think the hoplophobes can politely shove it…
(Courtesy of Captain of a Crew of One.)