Jordan Salinas didn't call 911. He grabbed his FN Five-Seven semiautomatic pistol and ran toward the gunfire.

It was Saturday afternoon at an In-N-Out Burger in Twin Falls, Idaho. A 24-year-old named Chad Williams had opened fire on the crowd with a rifle. Two people were already dead. Seven were injured. And Williams, by all accounts, was calm — frighteningly calm — as he leveled his rifle at the vehicles in the area.

Salinas, a 35-year-old healthcare worker who spends his days as a full-time caregiver for his brother, took cover behind a sign near the Twin Falls Visitor Center and assessed what was in front of him. "I peeked around the right-hand side of that sign closest to the road, and that's when I saw the individual with his rifle pointed at the vehicles," he told reporters. "He seemed unusually comfortable aiming that rifle at those cars."

That comfort didn't last.

Salinas opened fire. "As soon as some rounds started coming at him, everything changed immediately," he said. "All that bravado he had immediately crumbled."

Williams ran. An off-duty police officer also engaged him during the chaos. Law enforcement later took him into custody.

Watch Salinas describe what he saw and what actions he took that day for himself:

Twin Falls Police Chief Hicks confirmed what the scene showed. "We believe these actions drove the suspect from the scene and prevented further casualties." That's the police chief of Twin Falls, on the record.

Among the dead were Christopher Claunch, 59, and Ashley Garibay, a 23-year-old In-N-Out employee. Their families are now planning funerals because Chad Williams opened fire on a crowd of strangers on a Saturday afternoon. Five people remain hospitalized, two in critical condition.

Salinas was there with his girlfriend, Emily Cohelo. He's a healthcare worker who spends his days caring for his brother — and he was legally carrying a firearm when the worst moment of everyone's life started unfolding in front of him. He fired back.

And the gunman ran.

Every major network will have moved on from this part of the story within 48 hours. An armed civilian engaged an active shooter, broke his will to fight, and — by the police chief's own account — prevented further casualties. That's inconvenient for a specific set of people who don't like good guys with a gun narrative and only want more gun control laws on the books.

Sen. Chris Murphy will be on television within 24 hours calling for legislation that would have stripped Jordan Salinas of the right to be carrying that pistol. Under the assault weapons ban Murphy has pushed for years, the FN Five-Seven could be classified as prohibited. The man who stopped the shooting would have been unarmed. Murphy won't mention Salinas's name.

The gun-control crowd talks about the dead. They talk about the weapon. They talk about common-sense reforms. The one thing they never discuss is the person who shot back — because his existence destroys the entire premise. The premise being that the only answer to a bad guy with a gun is a law written by someone who's never held one.

Idaho is a constitutional carry state. Salinas didn't need a permission slip from any bureaucrat to be armed at that In-N-Out. He just was. And because he was, Chief Hicks isn't standing behind that podium reading a longer list of names.

Two people lost their lives on Saturday. Nothing changes that. But somewhere between the first shot and the last, a healthcare worker with a legal pistol changed the math on how many families would be getting that phone call.

The gun didn't dial 911. It dialed back the body count.