{"id":7313,"date":"2022-05-29T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-29T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=7313"},"modified":"2022-05-28T06:41:38","modified_gmt":"2022-05-28T10:41:38","slug":"another-mad-dog-ar-15-multiple-potential-victims-situation-and-a-different-outcome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/another-mad-dog-ar-15-multiple-potential-victims-situation-and-a-different-outcome\/","title":{"rendered":"ANOTHER MAD DOG, AR-15, MULTIPLE POTENTIAL VICTIMS SITUATION \u2013 AND A DIFFERENT OUTCOME"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Print and electronic media have all been inundated with the horrifying massacre at the elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. Lost from the national media is another case of a would-be mass murderer with an AR15, who opened fire on a crowd of people in Charleston, West Virginia. It happened within hours of the Uvalde atrocity. Why haven\u2019t we heard about it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the evening of May 25, 2022, a man opened fire on a crowd of people with an AR15.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before any of his bullets could find a victim\u2019s flesh, a law-abiding armed woman in the crowd drew her pistol and shot him down.&nbsp;&nbsp;He did not survive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can read the news account <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/wchstv.com\/news\/local\/victim-hospitalized-in-charleston-shooting\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Juxtapose that case with the massacre in Texas. The Lone Star State has a school marshal program where teachers who volunteer for the duty are discreetly armed with handguns. This policy was apparently not in place in Uvalde.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Suppose it had been.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Suppose one of those courageous women who died that day, hopelessly trying to shield young bodies with their own, could instead have spun on the threat and done what the woman in West Virginia did?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Those brave teachers and those poor little kids would all be alive and unscathed today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is why so many of us, including virtually every NRA member in attendance at the annual meeting this week in Houston, support the armed teacher program. It has worked in Israel since it was instituted after the Ma\u2019alot school massacre of 1974.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But snowflakes cannot grasp, or even seem to face, the concept. \u201cWhat it takes to stop a bad person with a gun is a good person with a gun\u201d isn\u2019t just an NRA mantra, it\u2019s an absolute truism, as we saw this past week in Charleston and Uvalde alike.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s a shame the mass media can\u2019t face that reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A tip of the hat to gun owners civil rights advocate <a href=\"https:\/\/gunfreezone.net\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Miguel Gonzalez<\/a>, who brought the Charleston case to my attention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Print and electronic media have all been inundated with the horrifying massacre at the elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. Lost from the national media is another case of a would-be mass murderer with an AR15, who opened fire on a crowd of people in Charleston, West Virginia. It happened within hours of the Uvalde atrocity. 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