{"id":1561269,"date":"2022-07-19T13:04:58","date_gmt":"2022-07-19T17:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1561269"},"modified":"2022-07-19T13:05:38","modified_gmt":"2022-07-19T17:05:38","slug":"a-young-gun-owner-in-indiana-did-what-uvalde-police-wouldnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-young-gun-owner-in-indiana-did-what-uvalde-police-wouldnt\/","title":{"rendered":"A Young Gun Owner In Indiana Did What Uvalde Police Wouldn\u2019t"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fa-young-gun-owner-in-indiana-did-what-uvalde-police-wouldnt%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1561269&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/image-2022-07-19T115630.122.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Elisjsha Dicken, a 22-year-old Hoosier who happened to be spending Sunday evening at the Greenwood Park Mall with his girlfriend, used his personal 9mm Glock handgun to stop a mass shooter\u2019s killing spree. He <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/elisjsha-dicken-good-samaritan-stopped-indiana-mall-shooter-1725801\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">eliminated<\/a> the gunman about two minutes after the shooting started, saving \u201ccountless\u201d lives. In contrast, after a shooter began firing on children and teachers in Uvalde, Texas, less than two months ago, it took police 78 minutes of cowardice before an elite Border Patrol team ignored local police orders and entered the classroom where the killer was barricaded, shooting him.<\/p>\n<p>The shooter in Greenwood, Indiana, took the lives of three victims before Dicken stopped him. In Uvalde, the death toll was seven times that. <\/p>\n<p>Dicken had \u201cno police training and no military background,\u201d according to Greenwood Police Chief James Ison, who added that \u201chis actions were nothing short of heroic. He engaged the gunman from quite a distance with a handgun, [and] was very tactically sound, and as he moved to close in on the suspect, he was also motioning for people to exit behind him.\u201d He did not hold a permit, but legally carried the handgun under Indiana\u2019s new \u201cconstitutional carry\u201d law, which went into effect July 1. Local news <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NQXOHsHkJV4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a> that he \u201csteadied himself against a pole\u201d before firing 10 rounds at the shooter from a distance of 40 yards, bringing the shooter to the ground.<\/p>\n<p>In contrast, Chief Pete Arredondo of the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District was specifically trained for active shooter scenarios, but he still ordered officers not to enter the classroom where the gunman had barricaded himself in with fourth graders. <\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/uvalde-texas-school-shooting-active-shooter-training-pete-arredondo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Records show<\/a>\u00a0Arredondo recently completed eight hours of active shooter training in December of 2021. He also went through eight hours of the same training in 2020 and 16 hours of \u2018Terrorism Response Tactics \u2013 Active Shooter\u2019 in 2019,\u201d The Federalist reported at the time. \u201cFurthermore, the Uvalde Police Department bragged on Facebook in 2018 about a grant that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/242033339163364\/posts\/2020447201321960\/?d=n\">equipped<\/a>\u00a0every officer with body armor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A Texas Department of Public Safety spokesman tried to defend the inaction of police, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/nation\/2022\/05\/27\/uvalde-shooting-police-gunman-shot-olivarez\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">explaining<\/a> \u201cthey could\u2019ve been shot\u201d in a CNN interview. DPS Director Steve McCraw admitted that the efforts made by police outside the barricaded door to \u201ctry and break through either that door or another door to get inside the classroom\u201d were \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/05\/27\/in-uvalde-a-picture-is-emerging-of-extreme-cowardice-and-incompetence-among-local-police\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">none<\/a>.\u201d Police even reportedly detained concerned parents who tried to rush into the school when officers would not.<\/p>\n<p>In contrast, Dicken didn\u2019t run from the shooter nor express fears that he \u201ccould\u2019ve been shot.\u201d He pushed his girlfriend, 19-year-old Shay Goldman, to safety and told her to stay down while he engaged the shooter, according to Goldman\u2019s grandmother. As a private citizen who put himself in danger to save others, Dicken did more to protect the lives of strangers than the Uvalde police did to protect the citizens they are sworn to defend. <\/p>\n<p>Dicken has yet to make any statements, and his lawyer has asked for his privacy to be respected. \u201cHe needs prayers because to take someone\u2019s life is hard,\u201d Goldman\u2019s grandmother <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NQXOHsHkJV4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">told<\/a> local news. But with consideration for his privacy, his name is the one that deserves to be plastered across headlines as a hero \u2014 not the name of the 20-year-old killer, as media outlets so often do after mass tragedies. <\/p>\n<p>Dicken\u2019s actions remind us that, even when law enforcement does everything right (unlike what happened in Uvalde), your first line of defense should be yourself. The distance from your hand to a holster on your hip will always be shorter than the distance police have to travel to the scene. And when officers of the state show regrettable cowardice, as they did in Uvalde, the only courage you have to rely upon is your own.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Elle Reynolds is an assistant editor at The Federalist, and received her B.A. in government from Patrick Henry College with a minor in journalism. You can follow her work on Twitter at @_etreynolds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elisjsha Dicken, a 22-year-old Hoosier who happened to be spending Sunday evening at the Greenwood Park Mall with his girlfriend, used his personal 9mm Glock handgun to stop a mass<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":500,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1561269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1561269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/500"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1561269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1561269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1561269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1561269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1561269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}