Off-Duty Chicago Firefighter Fired Back At Attacker

It’s easy for many of us to look at Chicago and see a great big hole when it comes to guns. After all, Chicago is the driving political force in one of the most anti-gun states in the nation. It was a city that enacted such draconian attempts at gun control that the Supreme Court had to smack them down via the McDonald decision.

Yet it’s important to remember that Chicago isn’t a monolithic entity. There are gun people in the city. Law-abiding gun people, that is. We already know they have plenty of armed criminals.

Well, one of those armed criminals decided to tangle with an off-duty firefighter. The problem for the bad guy is that the firefighter didn’t intend on being easy prey for anyone.

An off-duty Chicago firefighter who was shot several times while chatting with friends and cutting the lawn on the Far South Side Thursday night fired back at the assailant in self-defense, officials said.

The firefighter, 54, was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was stabilized and where his family was gathered at his bedside Thursday night, according to Chicago Fire Department spokesman Larry Langford.

“He had multiple gunshot wounds to his lower extremities,” Langford said.