Wednesday, January 1, 2020

NIGHTMARE SCENARIO

A few days ago, one Keith Kinnunen took a gun into the West Freeway Church of Christ in White Settlement, Texas (near Fort Worth) and opened fire, killing two people, before he was himself killed by a single shot from a volunteer church security man named Jack Wilson. 

Apparently, at least six other churchgoers were also packing, a fact that bothers Elvia Diaz no end.  Granted, Elvia thinks Wilson is a hero.

Jack Wilson is a hero alright. It took him only six seconds to kill a gunman at a Texas church, saving countless lives.

Insert "but" here.

Unfortunately, that kind of split-second heroism has been turned into a PR tool by gun advocates.

Because if anyone absolutely had to carry a gun, Jack Wilson is exactly the sort of person who should have been the only one allowed.

The reality of Wilson's heroism is a lot more complex. He wasn’t just an ordinary parishioner, as gun advocates may want you to believe. The church’s volunteer security team member is a firearms instructor, gun range owner and former reserve deputy with a local sheriff’s department, according to a New York Times detailed account.

Whereas nobody knows who these other people are.

In other words, he’s exactly the kind of man you want around with a firearm. But we know nothing about the at least six other parishioners who also appeared to draw their handguns at West Freeway Church of Christ in White Settlement, Texas.
 
And that's terrifying.
 
Maybe to you.  Sticks out to me that while they may have been ready to fire, these other people had the discipline not to.  So there's that.
 
You know what I can't get past?  When you get down to it, it seems to me that the anti-gun left is really, oh, I don't know, disappointed by the results of this encounter.  That it would have been better for all concerned if, oh, I don't know, 25 or 30 people had been gunned down before the duly-constituted police and only the police resolved this situation one way or the other. 
 
Can't have people thinking that they can or ever should defend themselves.

3 comments:

sybil said...

Of course they're disappointed, as when there aren't many deaths in a hurricane, only more so. If not all of them, then at least many.

Katherine said...

There's no reason to think that the other volunteers who drew their guns weren't well trained also. They behaved responsibly: no hail of gunfire, no stray shots, weapons holstered as soon as the threat was under control. A good job all around, except for leftists hoping for more murders.

Scott W. said...

I remember a year or so ago some celebrity saying that Trump wakes up hoping another illegal immigrant murdered somebody. I thought it was outrageous and replied that this was outrageous as saying gun-control advocates (David Hogg specifically iirc) wake up hoping there was a mass shooting.

Some of the comments on this incident are making me doubt the analogy.