Diane McIntire is one of ~6,850 law abiding citizens who used “The Great Equalizer” to save a life last Sunday. Every day ~6,850 law abiding citizens will do the same, most without a single shot fired. In her case, the criminal told her he had just “got out” and that he did prison time and stabbed a man in prison. That reminded me of how California has a policy of letting criminals out early and also downgrading what any rational person would call a “violent” crime to a non-violent one.
It should be noted that she could have easily shot him, but didn’t. She didn’t need to. The criminal is now in jail. I hope they do not let him out this time. I know California probably would. – Barry Bahrami via Facebook
MOLINE, Ill. – A pistol-packing grandmother says she kept her cool and waited for the right moment to pull her gun on a kidnapper with a knife.
“The grace of God is what saved me, and the sense to have calm, and have my weapon, ” Diane McIntire told WQAD.
McIntire says she pulled up in the parking lot of Southpark Mall in Moline last Sunday to buy vitamins when a man who appeared to be waiting for a bus suddenly appeared with a knife at the driver’s side door.
“It was a large butcher knife, I did not even see it at first, that’s how quickly he was in my space. I kicked him in his chest, pushed him back, I felt the knife cut right below my elbow,” said McIntire, who was visiting family over the weekend.
McIntire would need 24 stitches to close the wound.
by Tribune Media Wire
