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vjallen75 wrote:...Your position is once he is not a threat to anyone else other than himself your job is done?

'zackly.

vjallen75 wrote: ...You wouldn't have stopped the guy if he was threatening to kill himself? ...

Nope.

I might risk my life and limb to protect an innocent third party. Not to "protect" a guy with a blade who started the whole mess.

I am armed 99.999% of the time, and always at Walmart, but it wouldn't matter. For one thing, it is illegal to use deadly force to try to keep someone from committing suicide. Ergo, that means hands-on, or pepper spray, or club, or something else less lethal, and that is a very ("YUGE!") risky proposition against someone with a blade. Nope, not for me.

But I don't think that if I had been there from the start that we would have ever reached the point of his attempted/alleged suicide. If I saw him going after some unarmed gal with a hunting knife, likely there would have been some shooting in short order.

http://fox17.com/news/local/walmart-emp ... iple-times

Guy shows up and begins stabbing his wife, a Walmart employee, apparently with a hunting knife.

Up to four employees grabbed him and got the knife away. He then took a box cutter and began cutting himself, making suicidal comments. Employees took that away from him too. I believe I would not have done that as long as he was not threatening me or someone else. Wife went to hospital in critical condition.

More details. http://columbiadailyherald.com/news/loc ... t-date-his

Her Gofundme page says she is recovering. No word on whether Walmart has fired the intervening employees...