CCRKBA HAILS ACTIONS OF ARMED CITIZEN IN STOPPING CAMBRIDGE GUNMAN

BELLEVUE, WA – The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is hailing the actions of an armed private citizen—described as a Marine Corps veteran—in bringing down a gunman who opened fire Monday on motorists in Cambridge, Mass.

“This armed citizen has so far not been identified publicly by the media,” said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb, “but he is a hero in every sense. We know from news accounts that he is a Marine Corps veteran, and that he is licensed to carry a firearm in Massachusetts. This man joined a state trooper to stop a rampage, and in the process, once again demonstrated the value of an armed citizenry to public safety.

“The suspect has been identified as Tyler Brown, a convicted felon with a violent history,” Gottlieb added. “We’re appalled this guy was even on the street, in possession of a firearm he should not have had, and some reports say he was on parole and supposedly under the supervision of Massachusetts authorities. It might be a good time for those authorities to examine their supervision program.”

Published reports say Brown opened fire for no apparent reason on cars traveling along a Cambridge street. He was armed with an “assault-style rifle,” in a state with some of the toughest gun control laws in the country. Gottlieb called this another example of restrictive gun laws “failing miserably to live up to their advertising.”

“Many questions remain about this incident,” Gottlieb stated, “but what we do know is that a legally-armed private citizen intervened in a dangerous situation and played a key role in bringing the rampage to a halt. It is not the first time an armed citizen, regardless of previous military experience, has stopped a would-be killer.

“Cambridge should provide a lesson to Bay State politicians who have been working for years to deny citizens of their Second Amendment rights,” Gottlieb observed. “Apparently they’re determined to accomplish what British troops couldn’t 250 years ago, right there in Massachusetts, where the revolution started over efforts to seize firearms. It didn’t work then, and it should not be tolerated now.

“We applaud this armed citizen for putting himself in harm’s way,” Gottlieb said, “and proving once again the right to keep and bear arms is just as important today as it has ever been.”