The latest mass shootings, particularly the one this week in Uvalde, have members of the left convinced that the “good guy with a gun” argument is bogus, but one “good girl with a gun” just proved otherwise.
The “good girl with a gun” fired back Wednesday night when a Charleston, West Virginia man armed with an AR-15 began shooting “at dozens of people attending a graduation party,” according to local station WCHS.
A high school graduation party, to be exact, meaning children were present, much as they’d been present during the tragic Ulvade, Texas mass shooting.
The unnamed woman’s shot pierced the man, later identified as longtime criminal Dennis Butler, and killed him before he himself could kill innocent kids.
“Instead of running from the threat, she engaged with the threat and saved several lives last night,” Charleston Police Department chief of detectives Tony Hazelett said during a press conference later that evening.
Charleston police discuss Wednesday night shooting
Members of the Charleston Police Department are holding a news conference to provide an update on a deadly shooting Wednesday night. STORY: https://bit.ly/3MV87tZ
Posted by WCHS Eyewitness News on Thursday, May 26, 2022
This, of course, is the point: Good guys and gals equipped with a gun are oftentimes the ones who either prevent a would-be mass shooting or put a halt to an ongoing one. The examples proving this are numerous.
Last May in Fort Smith, Arkansas, a deranged man, Zachary Arnold, suddenly began firing a rifle outside his apartment and demanding other residents come outside.
One woman responded to his call and stepped outside. He shot and killed her. He then reportedly began firing at neighboring apartments but was stopped short when a fellow complex resident got his hunting rifle and fired back:
A year earlier in March of 2020, a Tulsa, Oklahoma woman suddenly opened fire at customers outside a shopping center. But before she could potentially kill anyone, a man with a concealed carry permit reportedly killed her first.
“Video reportedly showed the woman was involved in an earlier altercation in the parking lot. The woman left the shopping center and returned about three minutes later, when she pulled a gun and opened fire,” according to Tulsa World.
Something similar happened in Charleston.
“Investigators said Butler was warned about speeding in the area with children present before he left. He later returned with an AR-15-style firearm and began firing into the crowd before he was shot and killed,” according to WCHS.
See more examples below:
LaPierre was right: Armed deputy at Arapahoe High School stopped bad guy with #gun http://t.co/Y8DPdAEb8R
— NRA-ILA (@NRAILA) December 16, 2013
Good guy with a gun takes down killer, saves lives at Maryland high school https://t.co/McZnf7XcaV pic.twitter.com/rkLgc0SXFd
— Jack Furnari (@JackBPR) March 21, 2018
‘Saved a lot of lives’: Restaurant gunman meets his maker when armed bystander decides to act https://t.co/RQpOUrEwRP pic.twitter.com/flyl5sDQCv
— Conservative News (@BIZPACReview) May 25, 2018
Man opens fire at Florida back-to-school event, good guy with a gun drops him https://t.co/WmaH8VxNKo
— Bo Snerdley (@BoSnerdley) August 6, 2018
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👉 Oklahoma Walmart shooting spree brought to an end by a good guy with a gun, 3 dead https://t.co/mzlSzBdnBT
— ❌nuuzfeed (@nuuzfeed) November 18, 2019
But despite these examples that go on for days, members of the left continue to stubbornly insist that there’s no merit to the “good guy with a gun” argument.
Far-left MSNBC host Chris Hayes is one example.
“The police utterly failed with their guns. The good guys with guns in the school utterly failed to protect those kids,” he said Friday on his MSNBC program.
Based on recent reports of the timeline of police actions, he was correct about the specific “good guys with guns” in the Uvalde Police Department having “failed to protect those kids.”
However, he then went on to argue that the “good guys with guns” argument NEVER applies — that it’s “all BS.”
The same sentiment can be seen on Twitter, where leftists are convinced that the one example from Uvalde is definitive proof that it is, indeed, “all BS.”
Ted Cruz re-told the lie yesterday at the NRA Convention saying “What stops armed bad guys is armed good guys,” even after the cops froze and let those kids die in Uvalde.
Ted Cruz should never see a day of peace for the rest of his miserable life.
— BrooklynDad_Defiant! (@mmpadellan) May 28, 2022
“Good guys with guns” is an out and out lie and an extension of America’s chosen mythology that white men armed with weapons were necessary to put down slave rebellions and exterminate Native Americans.
— Jared Yates Sexton (@JYSexton) May 27, 2022
To recap: 19 “good guys with guns” hid in the hallway while one bad guy with a bigger gun murdered children
Time to retire that line forever
— Justin Kanew (@Kanew) May 27, 2022
The whole “we need good guys with guns out there” thing got destroyed in Buffalo and Texas.
— Touré (@Toure) May 26, 2022
It looks like good guys with guns aren’t the answer.
— John Pavlovitz (@johnpavlovitz) May 26, 2022
Yet these critics, all of whom seem to share the exact same talking points, have yet to account for the numerous cases where “good guys with a gun” DID save the day …
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