ARMED AMERTCA

摘要

On the afternoon of july 24, psychia-trist Lee Silverman found himself crouching behind a chair in his office as bullets whizzed by his head. A colleague at Mercy Health System in Darby, Pa., lay dead several feet away, shot in the head. And now Richard Plotts, a 49-year-old patient with a .32-caliber revolver in his hand, had turned the gun on Silverman, according to police. In between being shot in the thumb and grazed on the face by a bullet, Silverman reached into his pocket and retrieved a loaded semiautomatic handgun. He shot Plotts several times before two other hospital employees wrestled the patient to the ground. Authorities later said Plotts was carrying 39 additional bullets and may have planned to kill others.