ABC story, which is more up to date. OR, Mark Henle Emergency personnel gather at the scene where an Arizona Department of Public Safety trooper was shot, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2017, at the scene of a rollover accident on Interstate 10 near Tonopah, Ariz. An Arizona state trooper stopped to help at a car wreck along the remote highway Thursday when he was shot and wounded in an ambush by a man who was bashing the officer's head against the pavement until a passing driver shot him to death, authorities said. The trooper suffered a severe wound to his shoulder and upper chest but he is expected to recover at a hospital. (Mark Henle/The Arizona Republic via AP) Posted: Thursday, January 12, 2017 8:02 pm | Updated: 8:31 pm, Thu Jan 12, 2017. Associated Press | 0 comments PHOENIX (AP) - A man who shot and wounded an Arizona state trooper Thursday along a remote highway and then started slamming the helpless officer's head into the pavement as the two struggled was shot to death by a passing driver, authorities said. Trooper Edward Andersson, a 27-year veteran of the Department of Public Safety, was shot in the right shoulder and chest in what authorities called an ambush and was in serious but stable condition after surgery at a Goodyear hospital. "My trooper would not be alive without his assistance," DPS Director Frank Milstead said of the driver who stopped. Arizona has a "defense of third person" law that allows someone to use deadly force against another who is threatening or injuring a third person. It was not unusual that the passing driver was armed in this gun-friendly state where honest citizens are able to exercise their second amendment rights to defend themselves, their family and others.. "Arizona was open-carry before it was a state," Charles Heller, co-founder of guns-rights group the Arizona Citizens Defense League, said of laws allowing people to carry firearms in public. "If you see a guy walking down the street in Tucson, Arizona, with a gun on, you...

Thompson, did you miss this?

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Cursitor Doom 9 years ago

I hope to god when we get out of the EU we can do likewise.

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Kevin Aylward 9 years ago

I hope to Richard Dawkins when we get out of the EU we can do likewise.

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Cursitor Doom 9 years ago

Haha! I saw what you did there, Kev. :-D

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