The war on cops is spiraling out of control, but not all hope is lost. In Florida, one heroic citizen proved there are good citizens still willing to do what’s right for our men and women in blue.
A routine traffic stop on Interstate 75 in Estero, Florida Monday morning resulted in a high speed chase that ended in a deadly confrontation between the criminal suspect and a police officer.
This time, the criminal suspect ended up dead. But without an armed Good Samaritan, the result could have been much different.
It all began around 9:30 a.m. when a Lee County deputy was led on a car chase after the suspect refused to pull over. According to witnesses, after reaching an on-ramp the suspect got out of his car and lunged at the officer, Deputy Dean Bardes, a 12-year veteran of the Lee County Sheriff’s Office.
The suspect pinned the officer to the ground and was striking him repeatedly.
Luckily, a still-unidentified armed citizen witnessed the attack and — after several warnings — shot the suspected criminal three times, killing him.
“He just kept beating him and beating him, throwing him to the ground and punching him in all different directions,” Shana Holditch told WZVN.
Holditch said the suspect was relentless and, “refused to get off the officer and the officer kept yelling, ‘shoot him, shoot him, shoot him,’ and then he shot him.”
Bardes was hospitalized briefly and has since been released. The suspect later died, and authorities have said the investigation is continuing.
Pro-Second Amendment advocates say the incident proves the importance of concealed carry rights being available for good people.
— The Horn editorial team
Blue Lives Matter! Great job to my fellow CHL brother.
yes i agree job done to save a blue life no charges should be filed
NICE JOB bad guy dead good guy alive.
I love it when the good guys win. The more this kind of stuff happens the bad guy might start thinking about what he’s doing because the more good guys we have out there the more times the bad guys will lose and sometimes lose BIG.
That was an easy decision – someone beating on a cop. Not much to think about when using your firearm. It is good the shooter was a good shot and didn’t shoot the cop by mistake. If he has a .45 cal he would have only needed 1 shot.
He should recieve a commendation.
Let’s hope no stupid public servant in Lee County, FL decides to charge this citizen with some sort of weapons violation. A similar situation in Levittown, PA is being handled less friendly to the armed citizen.
If this HERO had a permit to concealed carry nothing is going to happen to him.
In Florida the concept of self defense or in defense of other/s apply. No jury here ever, will convict in a case like this.
And if they (politicians know this) put charges against this guy, and is not convicted, they will open the door to all kind lawsuits.
It is hoped that the police learned that the first rule of patrolling. They should always work in pairs. Dean Bardes was lucky to have an armed helper.
Well, what happen here is that many towns, small communities don’t have the budget to have two officers per car, per shifts.
Is matter of money, no of Ignorance on the part of the officers.
Thanks to the person that saved the Deputy
Gave me goose bumps. So proud of the armed citizen that killed him.
THIS IS WHY ONE MAN CARS ARE NOT SAFE TO DAY,.TWO OFFICERS SHOULD BE IN PATROL CARS . AND NO I AM NO A POLICE OFFICER .
Unfortunately, if some dirt bag is going to target LEO’s, it won’t necessarily stop the killing of officers.
Just look at recent shootings when there were two officers in a car. It just goes to show, LEO’s must be on their toes ALL THE TIME and take nothing for granted.
Amen to that!
Praise the Lord !
“But to be in conflict with the constitution, it is not essential that the act should contain a prohibition against bearing arms in every possible form—it is the right to bear arms in defence of the citizens and the state, that is secured by the constitution, and whatever restrains the full and complete exercise of that right, though not an entire destruction of it, is forbidden by the explicit language of the constitution. If, therefore, the act in question imposes any restraint on the right, immaterial what appellation may be given to the act, whether it be an act regulating the manner of bearing arms or any other, the consequence, in reference to the constitution, is precisely the same, and its collision with that instrument equally obvious. … The right existed at the adoption of the constitution; it had then no limits short of the moral power of the citizens to exercise it, and it in fact consisted in nothing else but in the liberty of the citizens to bear arms. Diminish that liberty, therefore, and you necessarily restrain the right; … For, in principle, there is no difference between a law prohibiting the wearing [of] concealed arms, and a law forbidding the wearing such as are exposed; and if the former is unconstitutional, the latter must be so likewise.”
— Kentucky Supreme Court, Bliss v. Commonwealth, 12 KY. (2 LITT.) 90 (Kentucky 1822) reprinted in THE FOUNDERS’ CONSTITUTION, Volume Five (Amendments I-XII) p. 212-213 (Univ. of Chicago Press).
So the questions are:
Why does carrying concealed require “permission” of anyone AT ALL?
What’s the difference between carrying concealed and carrying openly, anyway?
Do the gov’t agents who “issue” or “grant” such “permissions” and “licenses” collect and disseminate all your information? Why do they do that, do you think?
Kinda reminds me of a story i read recently:
An 87-yr-old woman was speeding, and a cop pulled her over; when he asked for her license/registration/insurance, he happened to notice that she also had a concealed carry permit.
So he said, “Ma’am, do you have any weapons with you today?”
“Sure do,” she replied, “Got my 45 in the glovebox.”
“Uh, ok…” said the officer, “Do you have any other weapons?
“Yep,” she said, “Got my 9mm in the center console.”
“…Riiight…” said the cop, ‘And is that all the firearms you have with you today?”
“Nope,” she answered, “I’ve also got my snub-nosed 38 in my purse.”
“Wow,” said the cop, “What are you afraid of?”
“Not a damn thing,” she said, “Nothing and nobody at all.”
This lady sounds just like my Momma!! Thanks for the laugh!! God bless!!
That exactly the fabric of been an American…
God blessed her !!!…
A-Men
Excellent – I would reacted the same.
Thank God for the armed citizen. He did it right. I’m glad he was there to help the officer. We are seeing so much of this attacks against our men and women in blue. We citizens need to step up and let the bad guys know, no more. We are going to be part of the solution to help our great USA, not part of the bad guy problem whose only interest is their own. God Bless our men and women in Blue and conceiled carrier armed citizens!
Thank You
We need to support our men and woman in blue in anyway we canr
GOOD ARTICLE! The lame-stream media would NEVER report on this unless the armed citizen had been arrested, then it would have been the lead story nationwide.
Exactly!!…
But we have the tool to combat against this traitors. Because they are traitors.
OUR MONEY… Let’s NOT expend our money on them.
NO MONEY for papers, for magazines, for the products they advertise.
On the last option, the best way is to let know the people that used them to promote they products, that WE will NOT BUY them. End of the story.
Hitting them in their pockets, and you’l see how fast the bend…
As an example… look a the Times…. begging their readers not to cancel their subscriptions, promising that from now on they will do honest journalism.
What ???… This means then, that they knew they were being dishonest and continued to do so?…
People… we don’t need them… we have the WEB…
If anyone wants to know about left, right, socialism, communism, capitalism and all the isms that come to mind … all are here .. on the Internet ….
And mostly …. FREE..
And the best part is that YOU… AND ONLY YOU… and your consciousness,
will take the decision of what to think, what to say, and what to opine on any subject.
His hard to take the time to make our voices be heard, but who say that life is easy?…
I did not see any news on this in the liberal media. Another example of why we need the Second Amendment.
Exactly Right!!
Hurray for the guy that shot the freak ! Glad the officer will be all right. Need more citizens like this guy. Bravo.
Sorry to say here in NY the Liberal Politicians would have this Hero that saved this officer locked up!!!
Of course… with Comrade DiBlasio at the helm… you can’t expect any different.
You must remember that for the left , the only people with the right to carry arms are the police and their bodyguards.
Then, they tie the police hands and what’s left ?..
US…. UNPROTECTED… and waiting for the police, that can’t do anything either, because his hands are tied by regulations that impose more hardships to them that top the criminals.
By the way, I’m a former New Yorker. I know what I’m talking about.
When citizens are armed many of these situations are able to be neutralized. The criminal is dead so that has saved taxpayers a lot of money. The office is alive. It sounds like a pretty good outcome to me.
If Trump ok’s a nationwide conceal carry law the crime rates will drop fast. Hope he does, no reason my Missouri permit to carry concealed shouldn’t be recognized in all 50 states. Including California especially California since they have more gangs there than most other states.
Exactly right! If you have a carry permit from any state you should be able to carry in all states. President Elect Trump said he will make this happen
I hope consealed carry permit become a federal permit valid in all 50 states. Liberal states wil never allow consealed carry and it is not fair. Maryland you have to document you are under threat of bodily harm to even be considered if you are an ordinary citizen. By the time you doucment you are under bodily threat, you could be dead!
I guess I missed that one, Keith. Thanks for that information. The Constitution tells us that we have the right to bear arms. How is it that individual states can say no? Man, President Elect Trump and Vice President Elect Pence have a huge task before them to clean up this mess we are in. Thank GOD that they know what they have to do and have the energy, stamina and fortitude to accept their responsibility to us all. I’m so very grateful for them and those who will be helping them to get things done to right the wrongs perpetrated by the current POTUS and those before him.
Please continue to pray for our new leaders, our country and our citizens. God bless!!
Good, glad that savage was shot dead as a mange dog in the street and the LEO is alive and well. America is NO LONGER tolerating this attack on our LEO’s and the rule of law. NO MORE!!!!
I agree and hope to see more of these feel good stories in the near future. LEO’S aren’t super heroes and sometimes are over matched.That’s when people like us become the Sheepdog.I will absolutely do my part to assist my local LE Officer’s.
I love that Alan. There are 3 types of people. You have the 98 percent ( sheep ) then you have the wolfs who are no good and then us The SHEEPDOGS who will take care of the wolfs. Thanks to the sheepdog who helped our good friend in blue.
Thank You
BLESS OUR LAW ENFORCEMENT and OUR COUNTRY.
Good job, thanks to armed Citizens.
ALL LIVES MATTER..I WOULD HAVE DONE THE DAME THING ..ONLY SAVE ON AMMO..1 HOLLOWPOINT WOULD HAVE DONE IT RIGHT !!!
You got it
With all of the insane things that are going on right now, I am glad the right outcome happened.
Many criminals are running amok, one armed patriot saved the day for law and order.
Thank you to the brave law abiding citizen.
There are many who can and will start doing the same.
Count me in
It also emphasizes one very simple yet important fact, we “ALL” need to practice those types of situations and make sure we are loaded with the proper ammo. This could have gone so very bad…poor aiming technique, round passes through and hits BLUE. So, we all need to practice and know our loads for each weapon(s) we carry to ensure the proper outcome.
You are spot on
You are so right Gray. That is something I didn’t think about. Good job bringing that out. God bless our men and women in blue without them it would be a whole different world.
One word,OUTSTANDING!!!!!
One word,OUTSTANDING!!!!!
COPS need to promote 2nd Amendment rights! That’s how this cop can pay back the RESPONSIBLY armed cititzen and our law abiding communities.
A GOOD GUY with a gun, made all the difference. obama. hillary, Schumer ,Pilosi, Reid, Warren, ETC.ETC. HMMMM???? (maybe I have been WRONG about LEGAL citizens and guns ALL the time.) This thought MUST SURELY cross their addled minds occasionally.
Guntoter, I seriously doubt that thought ever crossed their minds. First of all, they don’t give a crap about our law enforcement officers or our military. Second, they are afraid of all of us concealed carry citizens. The reasoning for that I think is pretty clear.
As a former LEO, I welcome the Concealed Carry, or Open Carry, in the USA. As long as these good people are truly trained in how to respect the gun, and use it properly…I am all for it.
I could have used some back up, many times, in my former police life! Most of the time, I had no back up at all!
Sir, I thank you for stepping up to the plate to protect the people. It’s a thankless job much of the time. I’m grateful that you survived it. Keep your skills honed, we may see some rough times ahead and can use all of the help we can get. God bless!!
Out of respect, I would like to pour some expensive whiskey on the grave of the shooting victim. I hope nobody minds if the liquid passes thru my body first.
Unfortunately, this story will never make it on the nightly news. Thankfully it was a citizen armed with a gun not a cell phone. I can just imagine all the anti-gun citizens standing there with their cell phones out, doing nothing, while an officer is being brutally assaulted.
GOD BLESS OUR “MEN IN BLUE”. THEY DESERVE ALL THE PUBLIC SUPPORT THEY CAN GET. THEY RISK THEIR LIVES FOR US EVERY DAY!!
No one is ever happy when a human life is ended.
That being said, the civilian acted heroically and did the job that needed to be done. Thank you, Sir. The officer and his family will be forever grateful for your intervention, and also for our Second Amendment rights that allowed you to be at the right place – at the right time – and the skills to carry it out.
I know it was a difficult position. I hope you are not troubled by your proper response… you did the right thing – the only thing – that was appropriate under the circumstances.
I am a Vet and I have a permit to carry and as this guy did I would not hesitate to help a policeman in trouble. I am sure you will get the same or similar answer from other Veterans that carry. Most of us have been under fire and we all took an Oath to defend and we know that our Oath did not end with the end of our active military time. In the times we are in now, if a policeman needs help he/she can count on a Vet to not turn away in fear and go all in to help defend our family in “blue”.
Latest info is citizen who shot deputy’s assailant was given a new replacement firearm by a local gun shop. (his is being held in evidence). Best part is 2 deputies escorted the citizen to pick it up and no charges look to be filed. Love happy endings.