By the Associated Press Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday gave Texas’ highest civilian honor to a 71-year-old man who shot and killed an armed attacker at a church in December. Abbott gave Jack Wilson the Governor’s Medal of Courage during a ceremony in Austin, calling him a hero for stopping the shooter at a church … Read more
Texas Governor Greg Abbott has announced that he will present church shooting hero Jack Wilson with the Texas Medal of Courage on Monday, January 13 at the governor’s mansion in Austin. Wilson was the church security team member who shot and killed an active shooter on December 29. The shooting and Wilson’s armed defense of … Read more
A former Navy SEAL, now serving as a Republican Delegate in the Virginia General Assembly, has introduced the “Jack Wilson Act” that would repeal that state’s ban on guns in churches. In a world of 2700-page legislation, Del. John McGuire’s bill is exactly one line long: 1. That § 18.2-283 of the Code of Virginia … Read more
This is TTAG’s weekly roundup of legal and legislative news affecting guns, the gun business and gun owners’ rights. For a deeper dive into the topics discussed here, check out this week in gun rights at FPC. New year, new laws going into effect It’s the new year and governments across the country have resolved to … Read more
Gun controllers are scrambling to explain away how a good guy — several, in fact –with a gun stopped a bad guy, to rationalize more restrictions on good guys. The Arizona Republic’s Elvia Díaz is fairly representative of what I’m seeing. Texas church shooting is about a lot more than Jack Wilson’s heroism The reality … Read more
Radical, gun-hating Democrat (and long-shot presidential contender) Michael Bloomberg offered his thoughts following Sunday’s West Freeway Church shooting. Of course, big gun control’s sugar daddy wouldn’t admit that good guy Americans and their guns saved lives in that church on Sunday Instead, he said that despite the evidence that millions of people saw for themselves, … Read more
It should come as no surprise that Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America lobbied hard against the Texas law that allowed Jack Wilson and other parishioners to defend themselves in their church. Just take a look at the “against” witness list for SB 535 Now, after the law ensured that lives were … Read more
By the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms Former Vice President Joe Biden deserves every brickbat being thrown in his direction in the aftermath of Sunday’s church shooting incident in Texas for declaring in September that the state’s new law allowing guns in churches is “irrational,” the Citizens Committee for the … Read more
If you’re not a football fan, you probably don’t know who Ray Rice is. Or was. Rice was a running back for the Baltimore Ravens. In 2014, the NFL suspended Rice for two games after he was arrested and indicted for assaulting his then-fiancee. That bit of news barely merited a mention on ESPN SportsCenter. … Read more
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