Packing Parishioners Stop Texas Shooter
You could almost hear the gnashing of teeth on Sunday. Let’s face it, the last thing Michael Bloomberg and his anti-gun disciples want is for all of America to see what happens when a bad guy with murder on his mind is stopped by a good guy with a gun.
Wait. Make that good guys.
It appears that at least five members of a Texas congregation were packing heat on Sunday and were able to stop a deranged shooter before he opened fire on the whole congregation. Two people were killed. So was the gunman. It could have been much worse.
The incident was over in six seconds, thanks to civilians with firearms.
Yes, in church.
The West Freeway Church of Christ livestreams its services and a camera recorded the horrific incident. Church leaders say about 250 people were in the sanctuary when a man stood up, pulled out a shotgun and began to fire.
The footage shows at least five people with handguns approaching the madman.
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Picture from Concealed Nation.
After 26 unarmed people were killed in a Texas church in 2017, the Texas legislature passed a law that affirmed the right of handgun owners to bring their weapons into churches.
The anti-gun crowd mocked the bill. It was overkill, they said. It’ll turn houses of worship into wild west shows. Good guys with guns rarely stop a shooter, they insisted.
Just call 911 when a shooting begins and leave it to the professionals.
Ahem.
According to news reports this was one of many churches in Texas that has trained parishioners at services acting as ad hoc security guards. They aren’t paid. They volunteer. They know what they’re doing.
And guess what, they didn’t open fire like it was the OK Corral. They carefully advanced on the shooter - a convicted felon who could not legally own a gun - and killed him. No collateral damage, the thing gun grabbers always predict will happen when ordinary people are armed.
It was a 71-year-old firearms instructor who took out the shooter with a single shot from almost 50 feet.
This was reminiscent in some ways of a Virginia Beach case in August. A 7-Eleven customer, who was getting a Slurpee, ended an armed robbery spree when he shot two armed robbers without spilling his drink. He killed one, injured the other.
Again, no one was shot except the bad guys..
He’s a hero. And so are the Texans who quickly ended what could have become a massacre.
There was another attack at a religious gathering last weekend. On Saturday night, a man armed with a machete invaded a Hanukkah party at a Rockland County, NY rabbi’s house. The attacker stabbed five unarmed people and left a 70-year-old man nearly dead..
During a press conference on Monday, authorities praised the partygoers for “fighting back.”
”They defended themselves with furniture!” one exclaimed.
Is that enough? Despite a rash of alarming anti-semitic attacks, The Rockland/Westchester Daily news reported that Rockland County Executive Ed Day is urging folks in the Jewish community not to arm themselves.
“Day said he would prefer that people not arm themselves and let law enforcement and trained people provide the security,” the paper reported. “He said people should call police, instead of posting on Facebook, if they feel citizens are walking public streets with illegal weapons.
"We don't want people to feel the need to be armed," Day said. "If they do, they do. I'd prefer they didn't."
Day better hope locals weren’t watching the news out of Texas this week.
