WaPo reports.

Here's the mask:



Surveillance camera video of the attack (with a 2x4) at the link.

The Little Caesars employee, Heriberto Feliciano, 28, had a concealed-carry permit and was able to get out the gun and shoot the attacker 4 or 5 times.

I checked the WaPo comments section to see if people had gone into yeah-but-we-still-need-gun-control defensiveness. Here's the most-liked comment:

As a progressive demanding more gun control....i respect and i am glad this man was able to defend himself and was armed.

You see deplorables....you can do both...

1. want better gun control and,
2. respect responsible gun ownership

......in fact im not sure how you can be a responsible gun owner and not support better gun control.

The second-most-liked comment is great: "Never bring a 2x4 to a gun fight."

The yeah-but-we-still-need-gun-control defensiveness does show up in the third-most-liked comment:

A rare positive case of a man with a gun defending himself against an attacker. He had a permit and didn't have an assault rifle. He wasn't mentally ill or an ex con and didn't buy his gun unrecorded at a gun show or on line. Lucikly the apparently crazy attacker didn't have a gun.

So does this support an argument why there should be no controls on gun purchases or carrying guns? I don't think so.