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Nairobi Hero: When Westgate Went Down, Civilian Grabbed His Gun and Rescued People
PJMedia ^ | 9/27/2013 | Bridget Johnson

Posted on 09/28/2013 12:01:39 PM PDT by rktman

Haji says he grew up around guns and lately had been carrying his pistol with him. “I left where I was and I headed straight to the Westgate,” Haji told ABC News. “Luckily on that particular day I had actually carried my licensed gun with me so I didn’t have to go back home to waste time and pick up a gun, I went straight to the mall.”

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: armedcitizen; guncontrol; heroes; kenya; nairobi; secondamendment; waronterror
Licensed gun. Did the al sheeshkabob terrorists have licensed weapons? I'm thinking no.
1 posted on 09/28/2013 12:01:40 PM PDT by rktman
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To: rktman
Astonishing....

thank you!


2 posted on 09/28/2013 12:12:38 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( Un-Documented Journalist / Block Captain..Tyranny Response Team)
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To: MeshugeMikey

Given the firepower some of those terrorists (collaborators with Obama) had, he was lucky he did not get into any confrontations...pistol verses rifle is not a good match usually. Kudos to him.


3 posted on 09/28/2013 12:17:43 PM PDT by Mouton (The insurrection laws perpetuate what we have for a government now.)
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To: MeshugeMikey

I read somewhere else that there was a former Brit SAS guy that did a similar thing during the attack. God bless them. It takes a whole lot of cojones to go in harms way like they did. But they would probably blow it off as no big deal. Just doing the right thing. Character counts.


4 posted on 09/28/2013 12:18:54 PM PDT by rktman (Inergalactic background checks? King hussein you're first up.)
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In the end Character is all that counts.

I’m a “semi-professional photographer and I cant imagine doing what the “photo journalist” and his wife did..and I doubt that they were carrying...


5 posted on 09/28/2013 12:23:00 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( Un-Documented Journalist / Block Captain..Tyranny Response Team)
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To: rktman

“Character counts.”

These thread tend to focus on the gun, but they really should focus on the men behind the guns. However, the gun does help even up the odds a bit when putting them in harm’s way.


6 posted on 09/28/2013 12:25:13 PM PDT by 21twelve ("We've got the guns, and we got the numbers" adapted and revised from Jim M.)
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To: rktman
It is about time that the civilized nations of the world set out to seek out these Islamic terrorist groups and eliminate them down to the last man.

No more drone missions or smart bombs targeting the leaders, they can always get more leaders.

We need to make the guys at the low end understand that we will not stop until they are all dead. Only then will we have some semblance of peace.

As long as they believe that they can succeed they will be willing to fight and die for their false god. We have to make them doubt their unholy book by showing them that the true god is not with them or their cause by defeating them at every level, by killing them in every rat hole they hide in and by building church where their burned out Mosque once stood.

7 posted on 09/28/2013 12:26:37 PM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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He had a hobbyist camera with him and called his wife (just-gotten-married recently) who is also a photojournalist and told her to bring her kevlar helmet. I don't know if they had kevlar anything else.

That was Tyler Hicks of the NYT.

I'm writing from memory of things I read so forgive me if I don't have it exactly right.

8 posted on 09/28/2013 12:49:41 PM PDT by Aliska
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To: Aliska

I think you nailed most of the details.


9 posted on 09/28/2013 12:52:51 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( Un-Documented Journalist / Block Captain..Tyranny Response Team)
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To: Pontiac

That would be great. Only problem is that we would have to pander to them before we took any action so we wouldn’t hurt their feelings. Feel this............!


10 posted on 09/28/2013 8:12:41 PM PDT by rktman (Inergalactic background checks? King hussein you're first up.)
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