After Armed Churchgoer Saves Lives, Liberals Move to Disarm Them
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By C. Douglas Golden
Published January 2, 2020 at 8:50am
In Texas this weekend, a gunman took a firearm into a church service intending to shoot up the place. He killed two people before the church’s head of security killed him.
The Lone Star State has a law, passed in 2017, that explicitly allows for churches to have armed volunteer security teams. (A separate law, passed this spring, guaranteed Texans the right to carry weapons inside houses of worship unless church leaders specifically prohibited them, according to WFAA, an ABC affiliate in Dallas.)
After Sunday’s attempted mass murderer was stopped in his tracks, one would say the security team law worked pretty splendidly, right?
Of course not. That’s why Beto O’Rourke and other prominent gun-grabbers are saying that Texas’ gun laws aren’t working.
In case you haven’t been paying attention, the shooting happened at the West Freeway Church of Christ in White Settlement, Texas. A man disguised in a beard, wig and concealing clothing opened fire during services before being stopped cold by a single shot fired by Jack Wilson, the church’s volunteer head of security.
According to The Washington Post, Wilson is an Army vet and former reserve sheriff’s deputy who runs a shooting range. A member of the West Freeway Church of Christ’s congregation, he started the church’s security team after the 2017 law was passed, according to The Post — and it’s hard to think of someone with better qualifications to do it.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton got it right: “If there is any church in this state, in America, that was prepared for this, it was this church,” he said at a Monday news conference. “They had done their training. And I think that you could see it in the results.”
It was, according to Paxton, a “model of what other churches and other places of business need to focus on.” Not everyone would agree, of course, because any pro-gun action automatically draws fire from the left.
The two loudest voices railing against Texas’ laws in The Post’s article were twice-failed major-office candidate/beard-and-wine enthusiast Beto O’Rourke and Shannon Watts, founder of Bloomberg-astroturfed gun scolds Moms Demand Action.ine enthusiast Beto O’Rourke and Shannon Watts, founder of Bloomberg-astroturfed gun scolds Moms Demand Action.
Just after the shooting, he declared that gun laws needed to change without actually mentioning any specific changes he would make. (Assumedly, it would include hell yes taking your AR-15. Not that an AR-15 or equivalent was actually used in this shooting, but still, the laws aren’t working.)
“So saddened to hear about another church shooting in Texas, this one in White Settlement near Fort Worth,” O’Rourke wrote in a Twitter post. “Clearly what we are doing in Texas, what we are doing in this country, when it comes to guns is not working.”
Poster Comment:
Beto needs to stick to what is going on in El Paso and leave them alone up north.