{"id":8745,"date":"2011-04-09T11:57:36","date_gmt":"2011-04-09T15:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=8745"},"modified":"2011-04-09T11:57:36","modified_gmt":"2011-04-09T15:57:36","slug":"someone-deserves-a-medal-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/04\/09\/someone-deserves-a-medal-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Someone deserves a medal here"},"content":{"rendered":"

If this Guardian<\/em><\/a> report is true, I hope that Royston Smith is on the next honours list:<\/p>\n

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Southampton city council leader, Royston Smith, was visiting the submarine with other dignitaries while it was berthed at the Eastern Docks on a five-day visit to the city.<\/p>\n

He described how he “wrestled” the gunman to the ground in the submarine’s control room as he tried to stop him.<\/p>\n

“Two shots were fired, straight after he entered the control room again and began shooting again,” Smith told the BBC.<\/p>\n

“I ran towards him, I pushed him against the wall, we wrestled to take the gun from him. He fired again, I wrestled again to get the weapon from him. I pushed him to another wall, I wrestled him to the ground and managed to take the weapon away from him then others came to help to restrain him.”<\/p>\n

He said a group of schoolchildren had left the submarine shortly before the attack.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

That’s a civilian, charging a gunman armed with a battle rifle, and disarming him before the trained military personnel could intervene. There are very few people who could have reacted so quickly — and correctly — in that situation. That’s heroism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If this Guardian report is true, I hope that Royston Smith is on the next honours list: Southampton city council leader, Royston Smith, was visiting the submarine with other dignitaries while it was berthed at the Eastern Docks on a five-day visit to the city. He described how he “wrestled” the gunman to the ground […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[30,364],"class_list":["post-8745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-military","tag-navy","tag-submarine"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-2h3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8745"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8746,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8745\/revisions\/8746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}