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A Good Guy With a Gun Put an End to Texas Church Shooting
townhall.com ^ | 11/6/2017 | Leah Barkoukis

Posted on 11/06/2017 5:55:49 AM PST by rktman

While many liberals have been quick to call for gun control in the wake of the devastating church shooting in Texas on Sunday, in the hands of a ‘good guy’ a gun is what finally put an end to the massacre.

Devin Kelley, a 26-year-old veteran who was kicked out of the Air Force for assaulting his wife and child, entered the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, at approximately 11:30 a.m. He killed 26 people making it the deadliest shooting in a place of worship in America. The death toll could’ve been much higher, however, had he not been “engaged” by an armed citizen.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: 2a; banglist; goodguyarmed; goodguygun; goodguywithgun; guncontol; nlz
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To: arthurus

We could use more details. Not that we “need” them but it could provide some answers. I didn’t think the cops had arrived yet but I don’t know. Self inflicted, cops, guys in pick up truck?


21 posted on 11/06/2017 6:28:02 AM PST by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: wbarmy

I’m betting he’s got at least two bullets in him...


22 posted on 11/06/2017 6:32:44 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: DoodleDawg

Precisely. If the feds aren’t enforcing the laws we have now, why would they want even more?
If this dirtbag lied on his form 4473, why didn’t the check catch it?
Why are we plebs waiting patiently at the gun shop if they aren’t actually checking to make sure we aren’t dishonorably discharged, wife-beating lunatics, felons, illegals or any of the other things they demand to know?

Even more `laws’ only make sense to ***holes like Her Heinous the unindicted co-conspirator, Gray Beaver, Chuckles, their friends across the aisle and the rest who want “common sense gun control” ... gun confiscation.


23 posted on 11/06/2017 6:40:31 AM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: alloysteel

I am going to keep repeating this:

We should lay this shooting at the feet of the left, as they inspired this with their anti-Christian hate speech.


24 posted on 11/06/2017 6:46:10 AM PST by Bigg Red (Vacate the chair! Ryan must go. Dump McConnman, too.)
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To: rktman
The suspect dropped his rifle, which was a Ruger AR assault-type rifle and fled from the church.”

<sigh>

Did it have the "shoulder thing that goes up"?

25 posted on 11/06/2017 6:48:47 AM PST by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To: Sicon

Maybe a flash suppressor so no one could see the YUGE muzzle flashes from the super high power ultra extreme military armor piercing ammo used. I really don’t like these people.


26 posted on 11/06/2017 6:51:48 AM PST by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: rktman
He killed 26 people making it the deadliest shooting in a place of worship in America.

Hmmmm, tragic as this massacre is, I do believe that Janet Reno surpassed that number of fatalities on April 19, 1993 when upon her orders 82 Branch Davidians, including 24 children, were shot, gassed and burned in their place of worship at Mount Carmel in Waco, TX.........

27 posted on 11/06/2017 6:52:52 AM PST by varon (Let the games begin.............)
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To: varon

Mount Carmel was a self inflicted massacre. Reno was not to blame.

(flame away, I don’t care.)


28 posted on 11/06/2017 6:56:39 AM PST by Responsibility2nd
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To: rktman

Another example of unpaid immediate responders (able-bodied citizens) taking action like our 2A was intended.


29 posted on 11/06/2017 7:04:48 AM PST by TauntedTiger (Political correctness analyst/expert/victim)
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To: Responsibility2nd
Mount Carmel was a self inflicted massacre. Reno was not to blame. (flame away, I don’t care.)

Since we are enjoined from making ad hominem attacks, I will not call you an idiot.

I will say, however, that is a totally illogical, idiotic idiotic statement.

30 posted on 11/06/2017 7:15:11 AM PST by BwanaNdege ("The church ... is not the master or the servant of the state, but the conscience" - Luther)
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To: umgud
Yep - something lost on those who would have us give up our arms. Their vision for us is to:

Make us dependent on the government

Have us willingly enslave ourselves to the government

Attain pet status where the government can have us put down if we become inconvenient to the government (for "the good of the rest")

Have us attain livestock status where we exist totally at the whim of and for use by the government (liberal utopia)

31 posted on 11/06/2017 7:19:43 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: I want the USA back

Ya, criminalize the good guy. That’s their solution.


32 posted on 11/06/2017 7:22:26 AM PST by Spok
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To: rktman

CNN just spreading more fake news.

33 posted on 11/06/2017 7:41:03 AM PST by seawolf101 (Member LES DEPLORABLES)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

We have this sign in our lobby facing outside. Isn’t that nice.


34 posted on 11/06/2017 7:43:16 AM PST by angcat (THANK YOU LORD FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP!!!!!)
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To: rktman

Yesterday in South Texas an evil God-hating man made war on unarmed Christians; men, women, and children.

Yesterday in South Texas an armed Christian, Stephen Willeford, made war back, and prevailed.

The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.

And in the end, the only real means of protecting innocent life, and preserving liberty, is an armed, prepared, willing citizenry.


35 posted on 11/06/2017 7:49:33 AM PST by EternalVigilance
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To: Wonder Warthog

And globull warming.......


36 posted on 11/06/2017 7:54:10 AM PST by umgud
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To: rktman

Because when seconds count the police are only minutes away “A Good Guy With a Gun Put an End to Texas Church Shooting.”


37 posted on 11/06/2017 7:55:12 AM PST by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: umgud
"And globull warming......."

Sorry...forgot that one.

38 posted on 11/06/2017 8:34:13 AM PST by Wonder Warthog (The Hog of Steel and NRA Life Member)
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To: rktman

I wonder what will happen with this guy. He went on a high speed chase to get the psycho. Some liberal judge might reason that he was safe and no longer needed to pursue.


39 posted on 11/06/2017 9:32:41 AM PST by castlegreyskull
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To: rktman

According to the first eyewitness accfounts, including the one from the driver of he pickup, the police didn’t show up until several minutes after the perp had crashed his vehicle.


40 posted on 11/06/2017 10:17:10 AM PST by Chuckster ("Them Rag Heads just ain't rational" Curly Bartley 1973)
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