https://krdo.com/news/2025/06/15/volunteer-security-stops-woman-with-gun-amid-pueblo-no-kings-rally/]
Initially, she was frustrated trying to get thru the crowd. He helped her navigate and asked where she wanted to be. He did everything right, but he shouldn't have had to. Law and order? Self defense? That doesn't seem to be the real reason too many strap on a gun and go where they obviously will not be part of the majority opinion.
"I saw this woman, and she had a Trump hat on a camo one, and she was just yelling and kind of, you know, just trying to get through the crowd. So me being the role that I was in, my first instinct was I went up and I was like, Ma'am, where do you want to go? Like, I'll happily escort you in whatever direction you want. And so I was escorting her in one direction, she changed her mind and went to go another direction," Martin detailed.
He says they stepped to the side to figure out which way she wanted to go, when a protester started to yell at the woman Martin was escorting.*
"She hit and unbuckled her holster, and it was a two-button holster. So, bam, unbuttoned it. And, you can see in the video, my hands are up and I'm, I'm standing behind her and I'm just saying ma'am, please don't do this," recounted Martin.
He tells KRDO13 another security guard nearby was pleading to the woman, "don't grab the gun, don't grab the gun, don't grab the gun."
Martin tells KRDO13 as soon as he saw her grab it is when he grabbed her. He took the woman to the ground on a platform in the Sister Cities Plaza in Pueblo. Martin explained that there was a group of elderly ladies in the area and that's where his mind went in the moments leading up to the tackle.
*When your local organizers say 'don't engage with opposition' there is a reason. Follow the good advice.
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