Stopping A Bad Guy

I haven't come up with the clever turnaround phrase - The good guy is the one who keeps the bad guy away from the gun(?)

I dunno, but if the bad guy doesn't have the gun, then the bad guy doesn't pull the shit.

Gun violence has something to do with guns - get it?

Sarah Burris, Raw Story

Police were able to thwart another potential mass shooting, this time the attack was aimed at Syracuse University. It’s all thanks to one gun shop owner who denied the possible shooter an AR-15, despite having all the legal rights to purchase one.

Twenty-two year old student Xiaoteng Zhan was deported to China by federal agents March 20, according to Syracuse.com. He had stockpiled a gun, ammunition and accessories in his off-campus apartment.

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Police were able to arrest Zhan prior to carrying out the threat. They reportedly worked with a gun shop in New York’s Madison County to track the potential shooter on spring break in Mexico. The gun shop reported that Zhan wanted to purchase an AR-15, a weapon that has been used by mass shooters in previous incidents.

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Zhan should have been able to purchase the weapons legally, but the shop owner refused. The owner then followed Zhan to his car and wrote down his license plate number. Police learned he went to Dick’s Sporting Goods asking about assault rifle. He was denied there as well.

I can't dismiss the probability that the gun dealers were acting on an impulse based in prejudice against "the other", but if there's a way to set that aside for a minute, I'm left with an impression that there are gun-friendly businesses out there trying to do something about our gun problem.

Way to go, guys.