caught the story this evening.

Gunman Kills Three in Indiana Mall Shooting, Citizen with Handgun Kills Shooter July 17, 2022

Ison stated that he will hold another press conference tomorrow. He praised not only his office but called the “real hero” the citizen who stopped the shooting. He did not reveal the civilian’s name but said he was a 22-year-old male from Bartholomew County, just south of Greenwood.

Indiana recently passed a law, allowing most citizens to conceal carry handguns in public without getting a license. Police are also not allowed to ask anyone they see carrying a gun for their license and no criminal background checks are required. That law went into effect on July 1.
The rifle used by the gunman has been described as a “long gun,” but no other details were provided.
That the shooter was stopped by a civilian instantly started a debate over the efficacy of the second amendment.

Ironically I started regularly checking the Sputnik feed after noticing several years ago significant regional news would show up several days sometimes before local and US national news sites.

And it looks like a FoxNews station, several regional papers, as well as The Guardian have picked it up, so I don't think it will be buried.

It looks like this "good guy with a gun" was in the right place at the right time and responded quickly and accurately to this single shooter. That could have been very much worse. They are a hero. I am glad too, that the situation didn't turn out bad for the good guy. Who knows what would have happened if there happened to be another good guy with a gun a few aisles over. Or, as has happened before, the cops show up and can't tell who is who.

To be clear, I grew up in the country in Texas. We used guns from a very young age to protect our livestock (very rarely needed where we were) and to harvest 3-4 deer a year. We also occasionally leased a back part of land as a "deer lease". So...lets just say my experience of city folks with guns is..not good. The idea that some have that everyone should be carrying? Just imagine going into a walmart or sam's when you know that most folks are carrying. And, most of them have very little common sense and no training. I am not going into that store.

Propaganda sources?

Seriously, I do not understand what you are trying to communicate with this thread. Most of the rest of your stuff is comprehensible, if extremely contentious and belligerent. Examples on request.

But do you believe that the editors of the national TV and cable networks, the NY Times and the Washington Post as well as the major news "services" like the AP and Reuters suppress some stories for their own reasons?

If not, what are you trying to say? I might agree with you on this one.

The Good Samaritan may face a felony charge for having a gun in a mall where they are strictly prohibited.
Growing up, and especially dealing with family violence and a lots of meth heads, it is just not that uncommon for a neighbor or friend to grab a gun and threaten or shoot someone to protect another. It is what you are supposed to do, if you can. I have fired off a rifle to protect my first husband, who had been injured by the perp. I was legal to do so. He ran instead of sticking around. I took a pistol from a man about to shoot my friend, held it on him until the sheriff arrived. It was in a bar, and the guy packing the pistol knew he was not legal to have a gun on the premises. He was an FBI agent. The gun was returned to him, and he used it to blow his brains out.
My Dad observed a teenager being beaten by a constable. My Dad took his pistol from him, just as he was drawing it to shoot the teen, and knocked his ass out cold with it. Nobody filed charges against my Dad.
These kinds of incidences get blown out of proportion so everyone can argue gun control and so on.
Things like this happen every day, all day long, all over the US. I just recounted 3 incidences involving myself and my family. None made the news.
Before it is over and done, news will get out that the 20 yr old white guy had fantasies of killing Hispanics, and that he was a person known to the FBI, as the murderers like him always are.
Nothing will change about gun control, and nothing will be done about the FBI always spending too much time watching, and doing nothing to prevent crimes of this nature. Nothing will be done about the likelihood that the 20 yr old was taking psyche meds. And this will only be news until the next one.
edit: forgot incident number 4. My somewhat nutty uncle, prone to violence, time in a mental hospital occasionally, got drunk, came to my parent's home to kill everyone. Occupants that afternoon were my brother, his gf, his 5 yr old son, me, Mom, and Dad. Uncle shot into a couple windows, my Dad managed to slip through the woods to get behind him, my brother shot thru a window. They both hit him with non-lethal hits at the same time, on signal. The cops came, and didn't seem to notice he was reaching for his gun with his injured hand, so I stepped on his hand, got the pistol, gave it to the cops. This did not make the news. My Dad and brother were not charged with a crime. I can't emphasize enough, these things happen. To those of us who have lived the life, we find it very ho hum news.

But this thread is. What a shock.