Planned Texas Mass Shooting Thwarted Without Red Flag Laws, Gun Control

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Posted August 6, 2019 4:30 pm by Comments

By Tom Knighton

In the wake of any mass shooting, we typically hear the usual suspects pontificate about how we absolutely need gun control and laws like extreme risk protective orders (red flag laws) in order to combat the plague of deadly rampages. It’s always a new law that we simply have to have, some measure that will ultimately infringe on our constitutionally-protected rights.

We’re told that we absolutely have to have these laws if we’re going to stop mass shootings from happening. Yet if that was the case, explain the attack in Texas that was just prevented?

Less than a month before two deadly shootings took the lives of 29 people in one weekend, another mass shooting was stopped.

A Lubbock, Texas man, identified as William Patrick Williams, 19, was arrested by special agents of the FBI and ATF, the US Attorney’s Office of the Northern District of Texas announced Friday.
Williams was allegedly contemplating a mass shooting and bought ammunition. He rented a hotel room where he was plotting to kill people before his grandmother persuaded him to visit a hospital after learning of his plan, the release said.
According to the release, Williams told his grandmother …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms

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