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It Should Have Been a Defensive Gun Use: Fine Young Cannibal Edition [VIDEO]

September 22, 2015

TTAG reader MM writes:

I want to forward a story about a man [Thomas Cottingham] who gave his life to protect a young women and her child from a lunatic with a knife. [Click here and here for news reports.] A young man named Thomas Cottingham also know as “cannibal” or “scumbag” gave his life to protect another citizen. He was a fan of hip hop group called the Insane Clown Posse. He called himself a Juggalo which was know the the FBI as a hybrid gang until this year when the group and the Michigan ACLU fought and won to remove the gang classification. Just because someone dresses different or looks different or listens to weird music doesn’t deny them the right to defend themselves or others.

28 COMMENTS

jwm September 22, 2015 At 20:08

Respects to scumbag. Facing a knife for another. Sometimes, to walk as a man, you have to put it all on the line.

May he find peace.
- Benny the Jew September 23, 2015 At 01:16
  
  +1
Felix September 22, 2015 At 20:09

Are you sure the Juggaloes beat the FBI? It says here they just won an appeal restoring their lawsuit to challenge the FBI’s classification.
- Max September 22, 2015 At 21:24
  
  No they won the appeal. They were taken off the FBI’s gang list
  - Felix September 22, 2015 At 23:59
    
    Here’s a quote from that link I gave: “In other words, the Sixth Circuit did not hold that the classification was “flat-out ridiculous and un-American bullshit” , just that ICP and the Juggalos can try to prove it was (and that it injured them).”
    
    Can you provide a link showing anything more?
    - Max September 23, 2015 At 20:44
      
      A federal appeals court has ruled in favor of the Insane Clown Posse in their bid to get the FBI to remove the Detroit hip-hop duo’s followers — known as “Juggalos” — from a gang list.
      
      http://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/music/insane-clown-posse-lawsuit-against-fbi-gang-designation-wins-appeal-n429801
      
      They are still going to court to sue the FBI and the DOJ. That’s different from being removed from the gang list.
Frank Masotti September 22, 2015 At 20:22

Now we should ban knifes, all knifes. Including butter knifes, hay it is a knife. Any knife can kill even the children. Oh can’t we please think of the children. With that sarcasm said, a bright light has been taken out of this world, and we all suffer because of it.
neipwa September 22, 2015 At 20:40

Stupid people, stupid places doing stupid things.

And once more -“just starting to turn life around”, starting college, writing the great American novel and curing cancer.

Decide to act like/dress like a moron may lead to being treated by normal society as a psycho (lose your firearms). Selfdescribe as INSANE CLOWN might be a clue.
- actionphysicalman September 22, 2015 At 22:23
  
  You do realize that the “insane clown” was the good guy in this story?
- Grindstone September 22, 2015 At 22:42
  
  Are you intentionally dense or what?
Ralph September 22, 2015 At 20:47

Okay, I’m an OFWG, a retired lawyer, a POTG, raised on hard rock so I’m no Juggalo — but I like ICP. So sue me.
- HeySpanky September 22, 2015 At 22:26
  
  This made me chuckle. There’s a little ICP in all of our iPods.
- actionphysicalman September 22, 2015 At 22:27
  
  I think I have House of Horrors on a playlist or two as well.
- Grindstone September 22, 2015 At 22:43
  
  The only song I’ve ever heard is the one about magnets.
  - anaxis September 23, 2015 At 00:08
    
    You should give “Home Invasion” by Violent J a listen. It’s about a DGU, and not from the perpetrator’s viewpoint.
    - Grindstone September 23, 2015 At 21:25
      
      Thanks but no thanks, not my kind of music. Not saying it’s bad. Just not for me.
- anaxis September 23, 2015 At 00:04
  
  Somehow…. I’m not surprised you’re down with the Clowns. \m/ >_<
Bill Kohnke September 22, 2015 At 20:59

Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his life for another.
- William September 22, 2015 At 21:01
  
  +1
- Frank Masotti September 22, 2015 At 21:22
  
  John 15:13 my favorite verse. And so right in this context.
- SkyMan77 September 23, 2015 At 14:21
  
  + Another… Thanks Bill… God Bless…
rc September 22, 2015 At 21:04

Godspeed scumbag. You put it down that others may live…the best thing that could be said of a man.
WRH September 22, 2015 At 21:52

I’m going to pour some Faygo Red Pop out on the curb in his honor.
- anaxis September 23, 2015 At 00:02
  
  For special occasions use Rock’in Rye. Red Pop is for spraying crowds.
  - karlb September 23, 2015 At 09:31
    
    Oh, Man, it has been years since I had a Rock’ in Rye.
    - Max September 23, 2015 At 20:48
      
      Actually they used diet root beer and diet cream soda to spray the crowds. Diet so it’s not sugary and stick. Root beer and cream soda because it foams or carbonates better to launch them.
PeterK September 23, 2015 At 07:47

There is something grammatical going on here: “which was know the the FBI”

Maybe ‘which was know to the FBI’?

That is a sad story. He was obviously a good man.
Donald Brian Lehoux September 23, 2015 At 23:22

Have you ever been old to “not run with scissors.”? Should they be illegal. I read were England is trying to ban knives, sorry don’t have a link. It has gone to far. If you are afraid every time you set out of the house stay home.The 2nd Amendment was put into the Constitution so the people could protect themselves from a corrupt government. I believe the people should have what the government has including machine guns. The only gun control law there should be is that criminals can’t have any firearms. Thanks for your vote, pass the word. mrpresident2016.com