Thus, it was no surprise to see surveillance video emerge from a butcher shop/convenience store in Monterrey, Mexico which showed a young punk armed with a revolver attempt to hold up the store, according to Fox News.
What was surprising was the entirely nonplussed reaction the young thug received from an older man wearing a cowboy hat who was standing near the cash register, seemingly not intimidated by the armed robber.
Even as the older man had a revolver pointed his direction, he merely removed his glasses and gave the young punk a hard look.
A female customer emerged from the back of the store and started to approach the register, which drew the attention of the armed young man.
It also provided the opening the older man must have been waiting for.
Without hesitation, the man in the cowboy hat rushed the distracted gunman and knocked the revolver out of his hand. The two then wrestled to the ground, disappearing from view of the camera.
A store employee quickly retrieved the loose gun and retreated from view. Seconds later the would-be bandit - now missing his hoodie and T-shirt - made a break for the door to escape.
But as the disarmed punk made it to the door, he was clobbered by another store employee and the cowboy-hat-wearing man, who dragged him toward the back of the store while the lady at the cash register called the police, who arrived a short time later and took the young thug into custody.
According to The Washington Post, the man in the cowboy hat is Reynaldo Cardenas, who is a co-owner of the store with his son, Daniel.
The younger Cardenas explained in Spanish to The Post through Facebook messages that the armed punk had actually been spotted in the store a couple of days prior to the robbery attempt, as if he had been casing the joint in preparation.
He also said that despite his father's incredibly calm demeanor throughout the incident, "he told me that he acted that way out of fear."
"He really believed the man was going to shoot them. When he had the chance, he acted instinctively to disarm him," Cardenas said.
Fear is an incredible motivator, and often goes hand-in-hand with bravery when the chips are down and trouble arrives.
This older gentleman may have been afraid for his life and the life of others, but his heroic actions undoubtedly saved the day.
One thing you'll see on TV shows is that people hold their guns or person too close to the person they are threatening. The value of a firearm is to keep people at a distance and still kill them. This scumbag kid obviously didn't know that.
I LOVE the reactions of the guy with the cowboy hat. I also like how they got the scumbag just before he almost escaped. Sadly, they didn't shoot him. I hope that at least, they beat his head with a few cans of frijoles.
Finally, it's events like this that make nonevents (like the alleged shooting at Pulse in Orlando) so much BS. Supposedly, at 10.30p, the sole gunman was in the bathroom with X amount of persons, his AR-15, and two cops outside in the crowded bar, and they left without evacuating the bar.
Supposedly, also, no one died until after 5 a.m. Even if the alleged gunman had enough rounds (with supposedly 57? dead and who knows injured (some insanely low number as I recall.)
So in a bathroom, there would be someone willing to go for the gun, especially if there were 53 people in there, or whatever.
The reason we don't know about this like we would a regular robbery murder (where you can read the reports, etc.) is that they just closed down public access and there's never been even an attempt at an explanation of all the illogical impossibilities that supposedly occurred there that night.
Also, what happened to the co-trainee of the Orlando alleged shooter, who turned himself into the Santa Monica California P.D. to avoid being made a dead patsy ?
Or the recent trial of the alleged shooter's wife, where the unethical prosecutors of that guy's never revealed that the shooter's father had been an FBI-paid agent from about 2004 through June~7, 2016, with the shooting on 6/12, about five
or six days later. And those Nazi prosecutors never told the defense about it until after they had rested their criminal case. They should be disbarred, but of course that will never happen because they're the (Falsely claimed) "good guys." (My ass!)
We'll never see the videos, either, except those showing non hurt actors being carried back towards the site of the alleged shooting and AWAY from the local E.R. which is closer to them than the bar!!!
R.C.