[size=8]Oregon shooting: Army veteran Chris Mintz shot seven times protecting classmates[/size]
Updated Sat at 11:07am

Chris Mintz

PHOTO: Hailed a hero ... army veteran Chris Mintz was shot trying to save his classmates. (Supplied: Go Fund Me)

An army veteran is being hailed as a hero for charging the gunman during a mass shooting at a college in Oregon, before being shot himself despite pleading that it was his son's birthday.

Chris Mintz, 30, who was studying to become a fitness trainer at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, was shot seven times by the gunman identified as Christopher Harper Mercer.

Mr Mintz underwent seven hours of surgery and suffered two broken legs and significant blood loss from his injuries in the tragedy that left 10 dead, including the shooter.

The gunman burst into a classroom, shot a professor in the head and then ordered cowering students to stand up and state their religion before shooting them one by one, according to survivors' accounts.

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As Mercer moved toward an adjoining classroom, Mr Mintz, an army combat veteran who served in Iraq, threw himself against the classroom door to prevent the gunman from entering.

But Mercer managed to blast his way in and repeatedly shot Mr Mintz, ignoring pleas that it was his son Tirek's sixth birthday.

"He gets shot three times, hits the floor, looks up at the gunman and says 'it's my son's birthday' and gets shot more times," Mr Mintz's aunt, Wanda Mintz, told local television state Fox 8.

"He could have very easily died."

She said Mr Mintz was shot in the back, abdomen, left hand and once in each leg but is expected to recover.

"He's going to have to learn to walk again," Ariana Earnhardt, Mr Mintz's cousin, said.

"But he walked away with his life and that's more than so many other people did."


http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-10-03/chris-mintz-shot-protecting-classmates-in-oregon-shooting/6825016

He had a handgun he could of at least taken several victims if he wanted but he was In front of a police station and wanted to cause a scene, and was intercepted quite quickly

The question remains, why didn't the much lauded gun laws prevent a dangerous individual obtaining a weapon ?

You wont read much about him now because they dont want to glorify these shooters. The sheriff already said this and some of the media are complying. Good idea in my opinion.

Nice try. He killed one person because his weapon was crap.

If this was America he would've killed 20.

I haven't seen any article that stated what he used?

-PB

Nice try. He killed one person because his weapon was crap.

If this was America he would've killed 20.

Nice try. He killed one person because his weapon was crap.

If this was America he would've killed 20.

A shooting attack in gun crime free paradise Australia. how can it be ?

http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/parramatta-shooting-gunman-a-15yearold-boy-police-sources-say-20151002-gk0flb.html

You are at home in bed, asleep. You wake up to find a man with a gun in your bedroom stealing stuff. Is it safer to lay there and pretend to be asleep or to reach for your gun and try and use it?

You are at home in bed, asleep. You are awoken by a man who has a gun trained on you. Is it safer to do what he wants or to go for your gun.

And where is that gun? Is it laying beside the bed where the man in both cases has already got it? Is it under your pillow? Or is it locked away so your children are unable to find it and perhaps shoot themselves, each other or even you?

Practically how is a gun going to help you if you are in bed, asleep at night?

I think if we could all just have one night where everyone gets a free pass on murder, rape etc. we can let out our bloodlust in a controlled manner, whilst living rage-free for 364 days in the year.

The Detroit police chief has called on the law-abiding people of his community to arm themselves.

Now, James Craig says his city has seen a drop in crime of 12%, as Detroit moves lower on the list of America's deadliest cities.

In 2014, the Detroit police department issued more than 1,100 handgun permits, while more than 8,100 guns were registered in the city.

The number of shootings and robberies dropped from 2013. Home invasions are down 17% so far this year, Craig said, following a drop of 38% last year.

Craig noted that in a survey of 1,800 felons, the respondents pointed to "armed citizens" as the thing they were most afraid of.

Craig said his police officers are doing tremendous work, but said that there are more and more incidents in recent years in which a criminal encounters an armed individual.

He said his time working in Maine taught him about the importance of Americans exercising their Second Amendment right and he brought those lessons with him to Detroit two years ago.

"My time in Maine was pivotal for me taking another look at what good Americans who are armed can have on reducing violence," said Craig.

The gunman who killed nine people in a shooting rampage at a college in Oregon had 13 weapons, federal agents said.

Dressed in a flak jacket, Chris Harper Mercer brought six guns to Umpqua Community College in Roseburg and opened fire on Thursday morning.

He was killed by police in a gun battle and another seven weapons were found at his home. All 13 were bought legally.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-34428410

Not sure how they'd be "safer" in a home invasion and no means to defend yourself.

Still yet to see a single legitimate reason a civilian needs a gun

Without regulation, the US would be like a Mad Max movie

These days it shouldnt be a right. It should be a privilege. If you fuck up that privilege is taken away. Just like every privileges we earn the right to them.

President Obama is not waiting to take acton. On january 26, 2013,
he announced 23 executive actions to reduce gun violence that will:
1. Issue a Presidential Memorandum to require federal agencies to make relevant data available to the federal
background check system.
2. Address unnecessary legal barriers, particularly relating to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability
Act, that may prevent states from making information available to the background check system.
3. Improve incentives for states to share information with the background check system.
4. Direct the Attorney General to review categories of individuals prohibited from having a gun to make sure
dangerous people are not slipping through the cracks.
5. Propose rulemaking to give law enforcement the ability to run a full background check on an individual before
returning a seized gun.
6. Publish a letter from ATF to federally licensed gun dealers providing guidance on how to run background checks
for private sellers.
7. Launch a national safe and responsible gun ownership campaign.
8. Review safety standards for gun locks and gun safes (Consumer Product Safety Commission).
9. Issue a Presidential Memorandum to require federal law enforcement to trace guns recovered in
criminal investigations.
10. Release a DOJ report analyzing information on lost and stolen guns and make it widely available to
law enforcement.
11. Nominate an ATF director.
12. Provide law enforcement, first responders, and school officials with proper training for active shooter situations.
13. Maximize enforcement efforts to prevent gun violence and prosecute gun crime.
14. Issue a Presidential Memorandum directing the Centers for Disease Control to research the causes and
prevention of gun violence.
15. Direct the Attorney General to issue a report on the availability and most effective use of new gun safety
technologies and challenge the private sector to develop innovative technologies.
16. Clarify that the Affordable Care Act does not prohibit doctors asking their patients about guns in their homes.
17. Release a letter to health care providers clarifying that no federal law prohibits them from reporting threats of
violence to law enforcement authorities.
18. Provide incentives for schools to hire school resource officers.
19. Develop model emergency response plans for schools, houses of worship and institutions of higher education.
20. Release a letter to state health officials clarifying the scope of mental health services that Medicaid plans
must cover.
21. Finalize regulations clarifying essential health benefits and parity requirements within ACA exchanges.
22. Commit to finalizing mental health parity regulations.
23. Launch a national dialogue led by Secretaries Sebelius and Duncan on mental health.

Other than sports and hunting there isn't any (bar security contractors).

-PB

It's a right, you don't need one.

Still yet to see a single legitimate reason a civilian needs a gun

Still yet to see a single legitimate reason a civilian needs a gun