Doctor stabbed, attacker killed - this is the headline to the story.
MGH patient shot by guard
This is the second line under the headline, before we even get to the actual story. Kinda leads you to believe that the person that did the shooting was, you know, employed by the hospital where the shooting occured as a security guard. Err, not quite...
A patient at a Massachusetts General Hospital bipolar clinic stabbed his psychiatrist during a treatment session yesterday afternoon, and was then shot dead by an off-duty security guard, in a frantic scene that a colleague later described as “every psychiatrist’s worst nightmare.’’
Dr. Astrid Desrosiers, a 49-year-old instructor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, the mother of grown children, and a celebrated doctor in the city’s Haitian community, was in stable condition at MGH and recovering from her wounds, relatives, colleagues, and hospital officials said.
While this certainly qualifies as a "psychiatrist's worst nightmare", it's not the greatest thing in the world for the nanny-state anti-gun forces, either. Here we have a private citizen - and what difference does it make what they do for work if they're not actually on the job at the time - using their lawfully owned and carried firearm in the defense of another. We have an actual, honest-to-goodness defensive gun use where the gun wasn't taken away from the gun owner, where the wrong people didn't get shot, where the private citizen stopped a deadly threat with the force necessary.
Sarah Brady and John Rosenthal have been put on suicide watch for the duration.
Dead Goblin Count: 31.
That is all.
8 comments:
Jay,
This morning I was listening to 96.9 and Jim "The Red" Braude was spouting off about this very incident. He was droning on and on and on about how it was OK for the off-duty guard to be armed -- presumably because the guard was 'profession-oh enuff' to be carrying a weapon -- but not ok for 'regular citizens' (aka subjects of the P.R.of.MA.) to have guns. What really got me going was Mr. Braude's statement that he considers himself to be a pro-gun kinda guy. I almost laughed & puked in my mouth at the same time when I heard that pile of 'steaming & stinking, fetid & festering pile of equine excrement' spill from his pie hole. Had I been driving on a curvy road, I'm sure I'd have been in a ditch. For those who don't know, Jim Braude as pro-gun is akin to Rush Limbaugh being pro Obama.
In any case, it sounds like a clean shoot, hopefully the good doctor will completely recover, and Our Hero will not have his ticket pulled.
- Brad
Great work by the security guard!
Glad to hear your son made it thru the hamthrax : )
Did you see this about the non-patriot moonbats in marblehead?
http://www.weaselzippers.net/blog/2009/10/massachusetts-libtards-horrified-at-the-sight-of-an-offensive-american-flag.html
I'm in and out of Mass General fairly often. I always carry there. This is one of the reasons why!
May I suggest we stop calling him a "security guard?" He was not at his place of employment, and he was not on duty. He was an armed citizen.
Wolf,
This is MA. Calling The Hero an 'armed citizen' rather than an 'off-duty security guard' would force upon The Globe the notion that allowing a citizen to carry a concealed firearm is legitimate. That would be contrary to The Globe's anti 2A agenda.
Just to be clear, he was not employed as a guard by MGH?
I have often wondered about whether I could CC in a hospital or clinic. (having been dutifully licensed CC by said PR of MA)
Steven,
There's an interesting new wrinkle I hadn't considered. MGH is a "teaching" hospital, so it's possible that this could run afoul of the "no guns in schools" part of the law. Now, it's doubtful this guy would ever be prosecuted, yet again, nothing in MA would surprise me any more...
I disagree.
A "psychiatrist's worst nightmare" would be a deranged lunatic with a knife slowly amputating digits with his knife and having noone around to stop him.
The man with the gun stopped thr REAL nightmare from happening-
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