Child Saved After Being Snatched in Walmart (Perp Killed by Fast-Thinking Cop- VIDEO)

A man was shot and killed after he snatched a two-year-old girl out of a shopping cart and held her hostage in an Oklahoma grocery store.

The surveillance video shows the dramatic moments as wanted felon Sammie Wallace grabs a two-year-old girl inside the store in Midwest City.

The man grabbed the child from the shopping cart for no apparent reason and then began to hold a knife to her throat as he began to ramble and make crazy, incoherent demands.

As her mom screams for help, other shoppers call 911 and begin surrounding Wallace. Officers spent 30 minutes negotiating with the man before he was then shot in the head at point-blank range.

'He thought the child was being harmed and stabbed at the time he did the shooting,' said Midwest Police Department Chief Brandon Clabes.

'I mean we waited until the last second to use deadly force. No one wants to take a life, especially in the line of duty.'

Police said he began counting down from 60, moving the blade from the girl's stomach to her throat, according to KFOR-TV.

Guess youve never been in a gunfight or high-adrenaline fight for your life? You’ll never hear the gunshot and probably wont care, trust me. Oh, and afterwards, you can tell who the seasoned veterans are: the ones that didn’t sh*t/pee their pants this time :)

Whether the high-adrenaline adults in the situation did or did not object to, or even notice, the sound of the gunfire does not have any bearing on whether any hearing was lost as a result, and this especially applies to an infant at most a few feet away from the muzzle blast.

This isn’t about me being in gunfights (or not), it’s about what unsuppressed gunfire can do to people.

The lefties love to talk about “gun safety” but yet they strenuously object to making a device that can make guns significantly safer from a hearing health standpoint any less illegal or accessible, with the result that they are uncommon, and hearing injuries are bound to occur.

In some places elsewhere in the world, suppressors are not only non-restricted and commonplace, but socially expected; it’s considered rude to have unsuppressed guns, or at least to fire them nearby others, e.g. at firing ranges or matches. Here’s, it’s a felony to have one without extensive permission, privacy invasion, delay, fees and paperwork, and almost no one has them. But gun safety, not in the gun-grabber sense but rather in the medical sense, could be increased if suppressors were unrestricted and encouraged. (But, don’t expect any lefties to go along with this.)

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