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DAY 13 — NATIONAL GUN VIOLENCE AWARENESS MONTH THE BAREFOOT PLUMBER WITH THE GUN THEY WANT TO BAN. November 5, 2017. Sutherland Springs, Texas. First Baptist Church. Sunday morning. Twenty-six people are going to die inside that building before it is over. But it is going to be over sooner than Devin Kelley planned. Stephen Willeford is 55 years old. He is a plumber. He lives next door to First Baptist. He hears the shots through his walls on a Sunday morning the way nobody should ever hear anything — a sound that is wrong in the specific way that human beings recognize before their brain fully processes what it is. Wrong. Something is wrong. He does not call 911 and wait. He does not have time to put on shoes. He grabs his AR-15 and goes. Kelley comes out of the church. He is wearing body armor. He has already killed 26 people and wounded 20 more. He is heading for his vehicle, presumably to drive somewhere else and continue. Willeford confronts him across the hood of a car. He shoots Kelley twice — threading bullets through gaps in the body armor, the kind of aim that comes from knowing your firearm well enough that even barefoot, even shaking, even with the adrenaline of hearing a massacre through your living room wall, you still find the gaps. Kelley drops his rifle. He gets in his vehicle and drives away. Willeford flags down a passing truck driven by a man named Johnnie Langendorff, who does not hesitate for even a second, and they chase Kelley down the highway. Kelley's vehicle leaves the road. He dies at the scene — gunshot wound. The chase is over. Whatever was next on his list never happened. Twenty-six people died in that church. I am not going to pretend otherwise and I am not going to minimize it. Twenty-six people. And then Stephen Willeford walked out his front door in his bare feet and made sure the number stopped there. Now. Two things. THING ONE: THE GUN. The firearm Stephen Willeford used to stop Devin Kelley was an AR-15. Specifically — the civilian, semiautomatic version of a military platform. One trigger pull, one round. Not a machine gun. Not a military weapon. A semiautomatic rifle that fires one bullet per trigger pull, exactly like millions of other legally-owned firearms, which happens to look like what soldiers carry and therefore generates maximum political panic while functioning identically to guns that generate zero political panic. This is the gun. The specific category. The one that gets held up at press conferences every June. The one that senators call "weapons of war" while standing in front of cameras in states where AR-15s are commonly used for hog hunting, home defense, and competitive shooting by millions of law-abiding citizens who have never pointed one at another human being in their lives. If Stephen Willeford had complied with what the gun control lobby wants — if that AR-15 had been banned, bought back, restricted to the point of inaccessibility — what does the confrontation in that parking lot look like? A 55-year-old plumber. No shoes. A handgun, if he is lucky. Up against a man in body armor who has just spent several minutes killing people and has a rifle. I will let you do that math. THING TWO: THE BACKGROUND CHECK. Devin Kelley had a disqualifying criminal record. He had been convicted of domestic violence while serving in the Air Force. A domestic violence conviction makes a person a prohibited possessor under federal law — he cannot legally purchase a firearm. He walked into a licensed firearms dealer. He submitted to a background check. He passed it. He passed it because the United States Air Force failed to submit his conviction record to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System. The exact safeguard that gun control advocates point to as the solution — the background check — functioned exactly as designed and still failed because the upstream agency did not do its job. The system everyone trusts. Failed. The AR-15 everyone wants to ban. Worked. I am going to say that one more time because I want it to be completely clear: the system failed. The gun worked. A plumber in his bare feet with the weapon your senator wants to confiscate ended the attack that the system was supposed to prevent. What next — someone is going to tell me that better background check compliance would have stopped this, while simultaneously proposing to ban the weapon that actually stopped it... wait. I just checked. They are already doing exactly that. Right now. This June. In Washington. THE DATA THAT DOES NOT MAKE THE RIBBON COLOR Here is something Dr. John Lott documented in More Guns, Less Crime that the awareness campaign will not put on a poster: In Canada and Britain — both with significantly stricter gun laws than the United States — nearly HALF of all home burglaries are "hot burglaries." That means the resident is home when the criminal breaks in. In the United States, with far fewer restrictions on firearm ownership, the hot burglary rate is 13 percent. Not because American burglars are more considerate people. Because they are more afraid. Convicted American felons, surveyed across ten state correctional systems, said explicitly that they were MORE concerned about encountering an armed civilian than about encountering police. Not equally concerned. MORE concerned. They spend more time "casing" houses to make sure nobody is home. They avoid late-night burglaries specifically — and their own words on this are worth repeating — "because that's the way to get shot." Here is the part that nobody talks about: you do not have to use your gun for it to protect you. You do not even have to display it. The criminal does not know you have it. He just knows that enough people in your neighborhood do that breaking into an occupied home is a risk he is not willing to take. Your neighbor's AR-15 — the one in the safe in the bedroom, the one that has never been pointed at another human being — is making you safer right now by existing. That is not a theory. That is a surveyed, documented behavioral pattern across tens of thousands of convicted felons who explained in their own words why they make the choices they make. The gun they want to ban is the gun Willeford used. The civilian firearm culture they want to dismantle is the reason the US hot burglary rate is 13 percent instead of 50 percent. Every home that a criminal decided not to enter because he thought someone inside might be armed — that is a DGU that never shows up in any statistic, because nothing happened. Nothing happened because of the gun. Quinn's Law Number One: liberalism always produces the exact opposite of its stated intent. Restrict civilian firearms in the name of safety. Watch hot burglary rates climb toward British levels while you congratulate yourselves on the awareness campaign. THE LEGAL FOUNDATION THAT NEVER SHIFTS DeShaney v. Winnebago County (1989) and Town of Castle Rock v. Gonzales (2005): the government has no constitutional duty to protect you as an individual. The police did not arrive at First Baptist Church before 26 people died. The background check system did not stop Kelley from legally purchasing a firearm. The law, in two separate Supreme Court rulings, has acknowledged that individual protection is ultimately the individual's responsibility — and then asked us, in the same breath, to accept policies designed to remove the individual's means of fulfilling that responsibility. On January 10, 1963, Congressman A.S. Herlong Jr. read into the Congressional Record a list of 45 Communist Goals — from Cleon Skousen's The Naked Communist. Goal 3: "Develop the illusion that total disarmament is the only alternative to total annihilation." The illusion. They called it an illusion in 1963. It is still being sold as a solution in 2025. Stephen Willeford was not an illusion. He was a barefoot plumber with an AR-15 who made a decision on a Sunday morning, and the number on the memorial plaque at First Baptist stopped at 26 instead of being higher because he made it. Say his name. But what do I know — I am only a medically retired Army combat medic who understands the gap between what the system promises and what it delivers when something goes wrong, a published textbook author, a physics and anatomy teacher, and a father of four whose children sleep safely in a house where their father understands that safety is not a ribbon color or an awareness campaign — it is a decision, made in advance, about whether you are going to be ready. IF THIS ARTICLE MADE YOU THINK: LIKE it so the algorithm shows it to people who need to read it. SHARE it — Stephen Willeford stopped barefoot in a parking lot and the media gave him almost nothing. Give him an audience. COMMENT below: The background check failed. The AR-15 worked. Tell me which one your senator wants to ban. And if you want MORE of this — the data, the history, the science, the stories — JOIN Bski's Classroom or follow me on YouTube. Subscribe to my account. About the cost of a cup of coffee per month. Your support keeps this classroom open, and I promise I will never run out of material as long as the left keeps trying to out-dumb itself. @JoJoFromJerz @GuntherEagleman @catturd2 #MAGA #Veterans #Trump

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