A suspected gunman with a lengthy criminal history, identified as Tyler Brown, allegedly opened fire on random drivers along a Massachusetts roadway, critically injuring two people as outrage builds over why he had previously been released from prison.
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The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is hailing the actions of an armed private citizen—described as a Marine Corps veteran—in bringing down a gunman who opened fire Monday on motorists in Cambridge, Mass.
“This armed citizen has so far not been identified publicly by the media,” said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb, “but he is a hero in every sense. We know from news accounts that he is a Marine Corps veteran, and that he is licensed to carry a firearm in Massachusetts. This man joined a state trooper to stop a rampage, and in the process, once again demonstrated the value of an armed citizenry to public safety.
“The suspect has been identified as Tyler Brown, a convicted felon with a violent history,” Gottlieb added. “We’re appalled this guy was even on the street, in possession of a firearm he should not have had, and some reports say he was on parole and supposedly under the supervision of Massachusetts authorities. It might be a good time for those authorities to examine their supervision program.”
NEW: A madman was shooting a rifle at cars in Cambridge, MA today injuring two people.
One thing to note, in MA these rifles are illegal for law-abiding citizens to possess. pic.twitter.com/M0wYQie8dU
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Published reports say Brown opened fire for no apparent reason on cars traveling along a Cambridge street. He was armed with an “assault-style rifle,” in a state with some of the toughest gun control laws in the country. Gottlieb called this another example of restrictive gun laws “failing miserably to live up to their advertising.”
“Many questions remain about this incident,” Gottlieb stated, “but what we do know is that a legally-armed private citizen intervened in a dangerous situation and played a key role in bringing the rampage to a halt. It is not the first time an armed citizen, regardless of previous military experience, has stopped a would-be killer.
The man who opened fire along Memorial Drive in Cambridge on Monday was on probation from a prior violent crime, and was involved in a similar incident six years ago while he was also on probation. https://t.co/aPUjr6p9ND pic.twitter.com/EwHNTmQgtm
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“Cambridge should provide a lesson to Bay State politicians who have been working for years to deny citizens of their Second Amendment rights,” Gottlieb observed. “Apparently they’re determined to accomplish what British troops couldn’t 250 years ago, right there in Massachusetts, where the revolution started over efforts to seize firearms. It didn’t work then, and it should not be tolerated now.
“We applaud this armed citizen for putting himself in harm’s way,” Gottlieb said, “and proving once again the right to keep and bear arms is just as important today as it has ever been.”
This is a great example for keeping a rifle in your POV. Using a handgun to stop this guy at this distance, is a very great challenge. And any caliber rifle would work to stop the threat. I carried a Henry AR7 for years in my car.
Now, let’s see how many times this guy has been arrested by the police??? Was the FBI aware of him???
Was he allowed to refuse taking his mental health medication? But was forced to take the c0vid shot???
The thousands of times a year an ordinary armed citizen good-guy-with-a-gun stops a bad guy, not always a spree/mass shooter but bad guy none the less, but chalk up another one. The anti-gun idiot that came up with the ‘the good guy with a gun is a myth, doesn’t exist’ concept, I wonder if that anti-gun idiot realizes what a moron they are when an ordinary armed citizen good-guy-with-a-gun stops a bad guy? Probably not, anti-gun people are usually too stupid to realize how stupid they are.