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Texas Church Shooter Stopped by Armed Church Heroes
AmmoLand ^ | 30 December, 2019 | Dean Weingarten

Posted on 12/31/2019 6:49:27 AM PST by marktwain

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The church defender is Jack Watson, long time firearms instructor, 71 years old.
1 posted on 12/31/2019 6:49:27 AM PST by marktwain
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Link to video on Bitchute
2 posted on 12/31/2019 6:50:22 AM PST by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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And still no word on the name of the shooter?


3 posted on 12/31/2019 6:51:33 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (When you think about what the left is doing to America, think no further than Cloward-Piven)
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I had heard the hero has a firearms training business. You can bet his stock just skyrocketed. And rightly so.


4 posted on 12/31/2019 6:56:52 AM PST by umgud
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Shooter is Keith Kinnunen. See Here

Crazy recently stopped taking his medication. Long criminal history including weapons charges. The only thing the church ever did to him was give him food and decline to give him money

5 posted on 12/31/2019 6:57:15 AM PST by Politically Correct
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EQAndyBuzz wrote:

“And still no word on the name of the shooter?”

See this thread:

https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3804377/posts

Keith Thomas Kinnuen.


6 posted on 12/31/2019 6:57:22 AM PST by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57 returning after lurking since 2000)
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The attacker has been identified, as has the defending shooter.

The attacker was Keith Thomas Kinnunen, 43.


7 posted on 12/31/2019 7:00:40 AM PST by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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The successful armed defender’s name is Jack WILSON, not Watson.


8 posted on 12/31/2019 7:05:50 AM PST by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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Notice they waited to release his name until they were sure about his social history. It would seem he has no social history which is unusual. I doubt there are very many babies in Bulgaria with no social history.


9 posted on 12/31/2019 7:06:29 AM PST by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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You really do have to give credit to Wilson. I would bet $100 with about a 50% expectation I could make that shot at the range. In those conditions I wouldn’t bet on putting a round into the wall behind him.


10 posted on 12/31/2019 7:08:40 AM PST by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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The successful armed defender’s name is Jack WILSON, not Watson.

You are correct. Thanks for pointing it out.

It is a weird error, because I know his name is Wilson!

Early on, I heard it as Watson, but I know that is not his name.

Weird brain-bumble on my part.

11 posted on 12/31/2019 7:09:09 AM PST by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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The media keeps referring to the church member who saved a lot of lives as “church security” as if he were hired by the church...

They refuse to admit he was an attendee at the church and lawfully carried...

Not long before this happened, a democrat in the Texas legislature complained about Texas passing a law to allow citizens to carry while in church...

Wonder what he has to say now???


12 posted on 12/31/2019 7:11:57 AM PST by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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In those conditions I wouldn’t bet on putting a round into the wall behind him.

Training takes over.

It was a good shot.

At the range, I could do it all day, a decade ago.

Now...Probably could still reliably do it.

I need to practice more. For the last month have been doing a couple of hundred rounds of dry-fire a day...

13 posted on 12/31/2019 7:12:16 AM PST by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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“It would seem he has no social history”

Not anymore he doesn’t.

14 posted on 12/31/2019 7:13:06 AM PST by circlecity
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Biden wants to ban guns in churches; right, that’ll stop it.


15 posted on 12/31/2019 7:14:03 AM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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Notice in the photo above that one member near to the attacker is standing up. By standing up she could have been shot accidentally by the armed congregant.


16 posted on 12/31/2019 7:14:56 AM PST by Tommygun99 (I've gone to look for myself. If I should return before I get back, keep me here!)
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I always took my rifles more seriously when I was shooting. Although I shot a couple matches a month for several years firing over a thousand rounds a month I always looked at those as being “fun outings” but my pursuit of “High Master” was an obsession.


17 posted on 12/31/2019 7:15:43 AM PST by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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Yeah, and these communist punks of the leftist Dimocommunist party want to take away our guns!! How many unarmed and defenseless people would be dead today if these folks had not come to the defense of their church?? How many, perhaps dozens, who the hell knows!!?? We have many armed men in our church every Sunday. Someone comes in our church and starts blasting away, he will get lead poisoning because at least a dozen of us are armed. Up in the balcony area, where our sound system guy is, he has a big screen TV with which he can see outside, all around the church, the parking lots, all the doors, etc., and he can see some approaching the doors and know if they are a regular person here. We are not a huge church so he can tell who is a member and who is not. My trusty Glock 40 cal is in my bag that I carry my notebook, Bible, extra mags, pens, Sunday school book, etc. I carry mags so that I will not run out if I need them. Man, I might fire off my initial 12 shots and need to shoot more, if there are more than one. We will defend ourselves. We are not going to be lambs to the slaughter at the hands of a Christian hating leftist.


18 posted on 12/31/2019 7:23:11 AM PST by RetiredArmy (The Bible tells us the happenings of the Last Days. Those days are HERE! Deny it at your own peril)
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19 posted on 12/31/2019 7:28:34 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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Coincidentally, I was doing some IDPA shooting on Saturday. One of the lanes had ten 8” steel plate targets set on posts at about 40’.

I don’t consider myself a good shot and managed to hit all of them except one on the first shot.

Of course the stress level was hundreds of times less.

I’m in no way diminishing the bravery of Wilson and the other church men, just the coincidence of distance head shots.


20 posted on 12/31/2019 7:30:04 AM PST by cyclotic (Democrats must be politically eviscerated, disemboweled and demolished.)
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