By David Codrea
USA – -(Ammoland.com)- “Surrounded by law enforcement officers, Ricky Dubose and Donnie Rowe were handcuffed and lying face down on a residential driveway in Central Tennessee,” CNN selectively reported Friday. “Nearly 60 hours before, authorities launched a multistate search after they escaped from a state corrections bus in Central Georgia and allegedly killed two prison guards.
“While they were on the run, the pair allegedly stole five vehicles, robbed two homes, tied up and terrorized an elderly couple; and led police on a chase where speeds reached 100 mph,” the report elaborates.
You have to go over to the sidebar or the supplemental video to see this story “highlight”:
“Homeowners with guns help capture fugitives in Tennessee” and “Escaped inmates caught by Tennessee homeowner”
In an honest report, armed citizens saving the day would have been the headline.
You have to go 30 paragraphs down into the story to find out the homeowners didn’t “help capture” the fugitives, they captured them. And while it’s fine and proper to credit the man and his neighbor with being brave, it was the fact that they were armed – with guns – that enabled them to successfully act on that bravery.
Compare the results with the bloodthirsty and deranged image of gun owners dominating most of the media. Watch snarky metrosexual media “progressives” like Comedy Central’s Jordan Klepper disparage the concept of a “good guy with a gun” using Alinsky Rule 5 ridicule. How do you think he or any of his self-impressed media counterparts would fare against murderous desperados with nothing to lose – as compared to the people they present themselves as being smarter and more knowledgeable than?
They not only want to scare people out of having a gun in the home, Heaven forbid a mere commoner take one outside with the intent of having it for self defense.
The takeaways? The gun owners did not fulfill the fake “bloodthirsty yahoo” stereotype being promulgated by the media, but instead acted responsibly, all without shooting anyone. That they were armed actually prevented violence – a concept the gun-grabbers either don’t get or don’t have any intention of acknowledging. It was the unarmed couple who were physically abused, taken hostage and fortunate to escape with their lives. And it was armed citizens, not the “Only Ones,” who stopped the predators in their tracks.
[UPDATE: A revision to the CNN account says the initial homeowner to encounter the escapees never even had to draw his firearm. Just the fact that he had one helped the cons make up their minds about their next course of action and was enough of a deterrent to prevent an attack and induce a surrender.]
Even when the proof is right in front of them, the gun-grabbers find the truth a hard pill to swallow, let alone admit without obfuscation. That’s because, if you take the edicts they would impose on their countrymen to their logical conclusions, they’d rather the homeowners confronted by the convicts had been killed than armed.
About David Codrea:
David Codrea is the winner of multiple journalist awards for investigating / defending the RKBA and a long-time gun owner rights advocate who defiantly challenges the folly of citizen disarmament.
In addition to being a field editor/columnist at GUNS Magazine and associate editor for Oath Keepers, he blogs at “The War on Guns: Notes from the Resistance,” and posts on Twitter: @dcodrea and Facebook.
Self-defense, act of defending self. Wonderful concept, wonderful example and wonderfully written. Thank you Mr. Codrea. It’s too good for CNN and MSNBC because there’s too much truth and goodness for them.
Well written, David. I am conflicted, though. On the one hand I am glad that the armed citizens held the criminals until the cops showed up rather than shooting them, which shows that gun owners are responsible people and not the trigger-happy knuckle-draggers as often portrayed by the media. On the other hand, they could have saved the state a lot of money which will be spent on a trial and further incarceration for years. Plus the fact that it is not impossible they may escape again in the future and kill again. Hopefully, if convicted of murdering a law… Read more »
What is this CNN and MSNBC of which you speak?
I don’t have time for such foolishness, I’m out back at my range behind the garage.
Just don’t watch CNN, MSNBC or any BS Late Nite shows,when you do you are feeding the beasts, including Facebook.
I really hope that NC legislators take note and pass constitutional carry. We are half way to it now.
Referring to corrections officers as “guards” is the same thing as calling a plumber a “turd chaser”.