Good Guy Bad Guy Both With AR-15 Your Thoughts
By Gregory Kielma
What Would You Do!
If there is a mass shooting, say across the street, and I’m not in immediate danger but I go after the mass shooter with my open carry and kill them, will I get arrested?
What Would You Do!
This happened in Sutherland Springs, Texas. A disturbed individual sought to kill his ex-wife's family. He knew they attended the Sutherland Springs Baptist Church, so on a Sunday took his AR to the church. He walked up the aisle shooting, turned around and walked back down shooting. No one could stop him. He left 17 dead, and 21 injured. It was a gun-free zone. Somehow the sign didn’t dissuade the shooter one bit.
A neighbor across the street heard the shooting, retrieved his own AR, and stepped outside in time to see the shooter leave the church. They had a gunfight, with the shooter suffering a mortal (eventually) wound. The shooter got in his car and took off towards the ex-wife’s family’s home (they were not at church that particular day). The neighbor flagged down a friend and gave chase. At a bend in the road, the shooter had run off the road into the ditch. About this time the Sheriff arrived coming the opposite way - they were planning how to apprehend the shooter, who was getting weaker, when the shooter pulled out a handgun and killed himself.
The neighbor was indeed hailed as a hero. He likely saved several more lives than had he let the shooter continue his rampage.
What is of course ignored by the media is that this was AR15 vs AR15, good guy with the same kind of gun the bad guy had.
It simply wasn't about guns.
To be clear, this is rural Texas where guys who inflict harm on the defenseless are seen as really bad people.
Had this happened in, say, California particularly, say, in San Francisco, let’s just say the neighbor’s mileage would likely vary, and by a lot.