It isn’t often you hear good news about guns, but I saw this story and thought it was worthwhile to let everyone know about it. It makes a person feel good to see a citizen, with a conceal carry permit, for a pistol react in a positive manor and not end up killing someone else or themselves, in the process.
You hear so much about the states, who have open carry, who react, before they know what is going on and end up killing a family member, because they didn't wait to see who it was. Then you have someone, who knocks on a stranger’s door, because he had car trouble, and the owner blasts him through the door, not knowing who was there and if he posed a risk.
So many times, people shoot first, then find out it wasn’t who they thought it was and they weren’t in any danger. It’s nice to see someone calmly pull out his gun and tell the attacker to stop and wait until Police arrive.
I could see conceal carry or open carry of a pistol, but why on earth, would you need to strut around with an AK-47 slung over your shoulder. You need something that big, to protect yourself? Don’t you stop to think about how uneasy you are making others such as women and children and elderly?
I would think you could use a little common sense and not carry these assault rifles around making people around you uncomfortable and making it more difficult for Police to know who is the good guy and who is the bad guy. Good guys don’t wear white hats and bad guys don’t wear black hats, so you can tell them apart. In this case the guy reacted fast and was able to de-escalate the situation without any shots being fired.
Didarul Sarder lost his job for pulling a gun to rescue a woman who was being stabbed to death, but he never regretted his split-second decision.
“I would do it all over again,”he told Fox affiliate WJBK. “If I could save this woman’s life over a job. I can get another job.”
Fortunately for Sarder, that won’t be necessary.
The 32-year-old has been offered his job back after his bosses at a General Motors Technical Center in Warren, Mich., reversed their unpopular decision, allowing the valet service supervisor to return to work.
The decision was praised by Warren Mayor Jim Fouts, who called Sarder a “hero” in a lengthy Facebook post commending his actions. He noted that Sarder had a valid concealed pistol license and “probably saved” a “woman from being murdered.”
“Had he not legally exercised his second amendment rights this woman would probably not be with us today,” he wrote. “He is employed by a GM contracted valet service. Right after it happened someone in authority asked him off the premises because he violated company rules with a gun. That was absolutely the wrong response to this hero. However that decision was over-ruled by higher ups and he now has his job back.
“Hero’s should be rewarded not terminated,”he added. “Didarul is a resident of Warren and a resident that we can all be proud of!”
He was arriving at work like any other day Wednesday when he heard a woman — later identified as as Stephanie Kerr — screaming for help, according to WJBK.
WJBK reported that Warren police said the assailant, a 32-year-old woman, had come to see Kerr and that they argued in the building’s lobby, then went outside, where the woman pulled a knife, stabbing Kerr multiple times in the neck, back and abdomen. WJBK reported that the woman was later identified as Kerr’s daughter.
Sarder said he told the younger woman to stay where she was until police arrived.
“The lady kept saying ‘I’m dying, someone help’ and it was just natural reaction,” Sarder told the station. “I just see this lady getting stabbed. I only had like half a second to think and I unholstered my firearm and pointed it at her to drop the knife.”
The stabbing occurred outside an office building where Kerr works and began with an argument between the Kerr and the knife-wielding attacker. Kerr was stabbed in the abdomen, neck and back and was taken to a local hospital, where she remains in critical condition, according to authorities.
Minutes after he intervened in the attack, Sarder told WJBK that he was fired by a GM employee and quickly escorted off the property.
When bosses higher up, in GM heard about what happened, they reversed the unpopular decision and are investigating what the circumstances were. Sarder was not aware of the gun ban on GM property.