This criminal decided to go after a gun-carrying Army vet and his girlfriend…big mistake

This criminal decided to go after a gun-carrying Army vet and his girlfriend…big mistake | Rare

When Retired Army Lieutenant William Lawler was approached by a knife-wielding criminal, he tried his best to warn the man that the situation wasn’t going to end well.

Lawler, who was with his girlfriend outside a grocery store, is a firearms instructor with pinpoint control—and he was carrying a concealed weapon.

“At least a half-dozen times, I ordered him to stop,” Lawler told the Philadelphia Times of his Sunday encounter.

When the man came at Lawler, he promptly shot him in the groin.

“My intent was to stop him, not kill him. I hope he’s okay, and hopefully he will be prosecuted,” Lawler said.