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These are all really good points and I do not have much info on CCW holders saving lives. Even when a hero does interact and gets murdered in the process, this shix media doesn't report the correct story.
Joseph Wilcox was one such hero, who likely saved many lives in Las Vegas.
A husband and wife had just murdered 2 cops and were in a Walmart . The husband was in the back and wife was going to be sleeper to take out cops when they were focused on her husband.
Joe Wilcox engaged the husband and the wife murdered him and in doing so she exposed her position.
Joseph Wilcox was one such hero, who likely saved many lives in Las Vegas.
A husband and wife had just murdered 2 cops and were in a Walmart . The husband was in the back and wife was going to be sleeper to take out cops when they were focused on her husband.
Joe Wilcox engaged the husband and the wife murdered him and in doing so she exposed her position.
Wilcox would have done better for himself and others had he warned others about to enter and then helped those able to -to leave and then being armed acted as a barrier between the BGs and the innocents instead of rushing into oblivion, not thinking past doing and getting killed.
What about his family who are now without him because instead of caution and measured response ran into his death?
Just because someone gets killed that doesn't make them a hero, sometimes it makes them stupid. This has gone round and round in LE agency training where is used to be almost impossible to point out bad decision making that led to tragedy because no one dared say anything ill of the dead. For that reason a lot of lessons were learned the hard way over and over until finally it was time to say it the way it was.
Wilcox didn't process his thinking correctly and was blinded by doing something instead of the best thing.
A CCW doesn't endow anyone with critical thinking skills nor the ability to see a situation past taking the first step. While his intent was noble his actions left a lot of casualties and those include his entire family, his friends who are now without him - and for what?
He made a very bad choice and it cost him but also everyone who knew him.
CCW doesn't equal being the police or some higher responsibility for the general public. This wasn't about pushing a child out of the way of getting hit by a car or some intentional sacrifice, it was bad decision making that just cost.
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