Pakistani 'Good Guy with a Gun'

[bobmcd]

There is an article in the Washington Post (January 21, 2016) that actually says that an armed civilian probably saved some lives in a terrorist attack in Pakistan.

The article is at: In deadly attack on Pakistani college, extremists take new aim at students

Here are some quotes, one of which was actually on the front page above the fold (for you geezers like me who still read the dead-tree edition):

The gunmen shot and killed 20 students and two teachers, some execution-style, and wounded nearly two dozen others. Several students said the toll could have been much higher were it not for a teacher armed with a pistol who briefly held off the attackers before being killed.

The attack is also refocusing attention on the vulnerabilities of schools, both in Pakistan and the West. Schools are generally less well-guarded than government buildings and are tempting targets because “when you hit students and kids, the pain is more,” said Saad Muhammad, a retired Pakistani army general and Islamabad-based security analyst.

But it appears that the carnage at Bacha Khan University, named after a late Pashtun nationalist and inspirational force behind the founding of the progressive Awami National Party, could have been worse.

After the Pakistan Taliban attacked the army-run school in Peshawar in 2014, officials began allowing some teachers to carry weapons in the classroom and gave them weapons training.

Syed Hamid Husain, an assistant chemistry professor at Bacha Khan University, was apparently carrying his pistol Wednesday when the gunmen sneaked onto campus.

In separate interviews with Agence France-Presse and The Washington Post, several students described Husain as a hero because he pulled out his pistol and confronted the attackers, who were armed with assault rifles. The 27-year-old teacher was killed in the ensuing exchange of fire.

 

[Havok7416]

The story I read was that he had a gun thrown to him by police on the ground (he was on the second floor).

 

[Deanimator]

The anti-gun cult narrative is that it would have been better for him to just kneel down and take that bullet in the back of the head.

 

[v35]

Not surprising: "Pakistan has relatively liberal firearm laws compared to the rest of South Asia."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overview_of_gun_laws_by_nation#Pakistan