Good Guy With A Gun In Texas Story Is Former NRA Instructor

By Tom Knighton

While the story out of Sutherland Springs is heartbreaking, more astute folks are noting that it could have been worse. After all, when the killer had completed with the carnage inside, he stepped out of the church and into the sights of a man named Stephen Willeford who lived near the First Baptist Church.

Willeford was at home when his daughter came into his bedroom to tell him she heard gunshots at the First Baptist Church nearby.

Willeford, a former NRA instructor, got his rifle out of his safe while his daughter looked outside again. She ran back in and told him she saw a man in black tactical gear shooting up the church.

“I kept hearing the shots, one after another, very rapid shots – just ‘pop pop pop pop’ and I knew every one of those shots represented someone, that it was aimed at someone, that they weren’t just random shots,” Willeford said.”

Willeford loaded his magazine and ran across the street to the church, not even taking the time to put on shoes. When Willeford saw the gunman, he exchanged gunfire.

“He saw me and I saw him,” Willeford said. “I was standing behind a pickup truck for cover.”

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Source:: Bearing Arms