The Patriot Post® · Tuesday Opinion

Best of Right Opinion

• Rich Lowry: In Texas, Two Very American Heroes
• Tony Perkins: ‘We Know the Ending, and It’s Good’
• Paul Kengor: Birthday of a Bloodbath
• Stephen Moore: Why the Left Has Been So Wrong About the Trump Boom
• Cal Thomas: With Teladoc, the Doctor Will See You Now … Really!

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Opinion in Brief

Rich Lowry: “No matter how tattered our civil society may be, it still produces people who will risk life and limb for others without hesitation, unbidden by anything other than their own sense of obligation. When Stephen Willeford, 55, heard of the [church] shooting, he left his house barefoot with his AR-15 and started exchanging fire with [the assailant] outside the church. An expert shot, Willeford hit [the assailant] and reportedly aimed for the gaps on his body armor. When [the assailant] got in an SUV and sped off, Willeford jumped in Johnnie Langendorff’s truck and told him to give chase. Langendorff, 27, didn’t ask any questions. He followed Kelley at 95 m.p.h. down the highway, until the perpetrator ran off the road. … Willeford and Langendorff would have been justified in considering their work done when the shooter left the scene of his massacre. They would have been justified in considering it done when he crashed his vehicle. They instead were prepared for another gunfight in the cause of incapacitating him themselves. … Any gun control measure that is sweeping enough to make a dent in the country’s gun stock and render gun ownership difficult enough to, at the margins, keep firearms out of the hands of psychopaths will inevitably affect law-abiding people as well. In places like rural Texas that would rightly be considered a serious imposition. Without a gun, if something goes wrong, the only option is sitting and waiting for the authorities to show up. And the likes of Stephen Willeford and Johnnie Langendorff, obviously, aren’t the waiting kind.”