Posted on 11/07/2017 3:52:19 AM PST by servo1969
The Sutherland Springs man who came face-to-face with a madman who killed 26 people in a Texas church says God protected him and gave him the skills he needed to stop more deaths. The former NRA instructor engaged Devin Patrick Kelley as he exited the church.
"I'm no hero. I'm not," Stephen Willeford told 40/29 News reporter Joshua Cole in a video interview on Monday. "I think my God, my Lord, protected me and gave me the skills I needed to do what needed to be done."
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"I just wish I could have gotten there faster," Willeford said in an emotional interview. "I didn't know. I didn't know what was happening."
Willeford told Cole the experience was surreal. "I was scared," he said. "It was surreal to me-it couldn't be happening."
After hearing the "pop pop pop pop" sound that was all too familiar to a former NRA instructor, Willeford said he grabbed his rifle and quickly loaded rounds into his magazine. When he stepped out onto the street, he saw a man wearing all black, a tactical helmet, and a ballistic vest.
"I kept hearing the shots, one after another, very rapid shots - just 'pop pop pop pop' and I knew every one of those shots represented someone, that it was aimed at someone, that they weren't just random shots," Willeford explained. "He saw me and I saw him."
He said he took cover and did what he had to do.
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Swift sword and impenetrable shield of the Lord is without mercy as the time for mercy was before the slaughter of innocents ever started.
“The article above doesn’t mention it but he was also using an AR-15 style rifle”
The media is choosing to ignore this fact.
Those are two good men. Mr. Willeford is showing real emotion as are the other families. These people are truly grieving not like those fake ones laughing and smiling at Sandy Hook.
Progressives worst nightmare: white man, fifties, clutching his bible and gun. And he was an NRA instructor!
Not unnoticed is that shooter shared views with Progressives on Christianity as Progresssives condemn prayer and God in their shooter’s wake.
Yes but those if us that are aware of the media censorship know by now what gun he used, I’m personally not an AR fan, i had two and sold them off and instead kept my M1A, sure its bigger both in size and caliber but my thoughts were what if it had to at some time go up against this kind of a situation.
A shooter with AR500 plates, a ballistic helmet, a modern high velocity rifle that could be full auto.
But I’m 60, a heavy equipment mechanic my whole life, I’m also very strong.
I’m hoping laws will make it easier to own full auto, create laws like the Swiss have. To the point of giving weapons to the people that the military doesn’t currently use.
Be like the Swiss. And do it better.
Which was precisely the intent of the Second Amendment, until its clear meaning and history were deliberately obfuscated by liberals in law schools.
Psalm 144...
Yup.
We aren’t the Swiss. We have a large underclass, poor border control, and a war on drugs.
“Seeing divine intervention in all events is foolish and stupid.”
God has His own agenda which we do not understand now but will when we get to the other side. Being called a fool for faith is par for the narrow course.
If my ratio is right, the population of the town on wiki is 643. if this had happened in 8.5 million NYC 344k people would be killed. wounded not included.
Thanks - I hadn’t seen that yet - I guess Wil will get some bad news when his soul departs.
He felt the Lord led him to know where the shoot the bad guy...in the side which was not covered by his bullet proof vest.
So god didn't like the people in the church?
You are an idiot!
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