Reply #42: Move the goal posts all you want. But here you go.

[Glassunion]

From the Corvallis Gazette-Times of November 23, 2005
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From Portland’s KATU.com of February 14, 2006
Mall shooting victim drew own pistol, family says
Parents of the man most seriously wounded in a shooting rampage at a shopping mall said Tuesday that he drew a pistol and confronted the gunman before being shot.
Brendan “Dan’’ McKown, 38, was hit twice in the abdomen on Sunday, when a gunman opened fire on crowds in the Tacoma Mall.
Doctors at Tacoma General Hospital believe McKown may have suffered permanent paralysis because of spinal damage, hospital spokesman Todd Kelley said.
Roger McKown, 63, of Yelm, called his son a hero and said he has been licensed to carry a firearm for years.
“Dan has been one that always believes in protecting other people, and he put his life on the line for other people,’’ he said at a hospital news conference.

McKown would not be in this position had he not been at work on Nov. 20. He managed a store inside the mall and was chatting with a friend when he heard gunshots.
“Bam, bam, bam, bam, high rate of fire, people wer diving for cover,” he says.
That is when McKown pulled his pistol, the gun he has carried for 17 years, not imagining he might actually have to use it. That is, until he came face to face with Dominick Maldonado, who had a rifle.
“I said – ‘Young man, I think you need to put your weapon down.’ He apparently didn’t appreciate that and he brought his gun around. I drew and right as I aimed at his head, he hit me in the spine,” McKown says. “Each blow is throwing my arm back into the air and I’m just praying to God, something really un-Christian, just please let me kill this guy before he shoots somebody else.”
As McKown was bleeding and believing he was going to die, police say Maldonado took hostages, keeping officers and paramedics outside for another hour and twenty minutes.
As for his accused shooter, Maldonado’s trial begins in April and McKown says he plans to be there.