The Hero of the Sutherland Springs Church shooting cut an ad for the National Rifle Association, and humbly illustrated the truth: that vigilant gun owners are the ones that can stop bad things from happening to good people. Stephen Willeford is a plumber from the small town, but his earnest heroism made the difference that fateful morning.
“Anti-gun politicians and anti-gun activists have made clear their belief that the way to stop criminals is to restrict the rights of law-abiding citizens, and many have blamed the men and women of the NRA for acts of deranged individuals. Sometimes it feels like the mainstream media hates firearms,” he wrote in the Dallas Morning News. “I am proof that they are wrong. I am also proof that the NRA’s familiar mantra is true: The best way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun,” he added.
Liberals succeeded years ago on securing laws that would do a background check on people like the Sutherland Springs killer, a mentally disturbed atheist that was obsessed with the Charleston shooter, who murdered five churchgoers in 2015. Their laws did not prevent the shooting, and as another familiar mantra goes, when seconds count, the police take minutes.
Stephen Willeford, a legally armed NRA instructor with the same AR-15 the killer used, was the last line of defense that saved yet more people from being killed. He shot the deranged killer twice, then chased him in a high-speed pursuit, before the killer wrecked his car and eventually committed suicide. “A lot of gun control groups out there talk about restricting gun rights, but criminals don’t obey laws,” Willeford wrote. “Those restrictions only affect law-abiding gun owners like me. They do nothing to increase public safety.”
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