This is a beautiful thing. Read Officer Mark Todd describe what happened at Fort Hood.

FORT HOOD, Texas (CNN) – The first people who came across Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the psychiatrist suspected of Thursday’s murderous rampage, told tales Friday of quick, calm efforts in the face of danger.
By the time it was over — in less than five minutes, base commander Lt. Gen. Bob Cone said — 13 people were dead and 38, including Hasan, were wounded.
Mark Todd was one of two civilian police sergeants credited with helping take down Hasan. He and partner Kimberly Munley pulled up outside the building where the shooting was occurring at the same time, and Todd saw the shooter standing outside — about 15 yards away. He appeared calm.
“As soon as we got there, it was game on, and then that’s when it escalated, and we did what we had to do,” he told CNN’s “Anderson Cooper.”
“I yelled at him, ‘Stop! Drop the weapon!’ And that’s when he raised his weapon and fired a couple of shots at me.”
Todd said he and Munley both took cover and as Hasan walked around one side of the building, he went around the other. “That’s when I saw him again. I told him to drop his weapon and he fired a couple more rounds. He fell, I went up and secured his weapon.”
As soon as his weapon had been taken away, medics appeared, Todd said.
“It was like instantaneous,” he said. “We started life-saving measures to keep him alive as well.”

He killed people out of an apparent sense of religious duty. “We,” meanwhile, don’t kill the murderer. We don’t let him die. We work to save his life.