The Patriot Post® · Wednesday Opinion

Best of Right Opinion

• Marc A. Thiessen: Attacking the NRA Is Really Attacking Everyday Americans
• L. Brent Bozell & Tim Graham: Exploiting Teenager Rage
• Tony Perkins: Delta’s Political Baggage Hurts Business
• Hans von Spakovsky: The Left’s Fever Dream of Mueller Indicting Trump Won’t Happen
• Byron York: Trump and Obama: Who’s Really Tougher on Russia?

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Opinion in Brief

Marc A. Thiessen: “A few weeks before the school shooting in Parkland, FL, Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar (TX) invited a special guest to attend the State of the Union address: Stephen Willeford, the hero who just months earlier had stopped a mass shooter at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, TX. … Here’s something … you need to know about Willeford. First, he is a longtime National Rifle Association instructor; it was his NRA training that allowed him to subdue the shooter. Second, the weapon he used to stop the killing spree in Sutherland Springs was an AR-15 — the very weapon gun-control advocates now want to ban. Without an AR-15, he says, he might not have stopped the killer. … Because of his weapon, his training and his courage, countless lives were probably saved. They could have used a Stephen Willeford in Parkland. … We all want to keep guns out of the hands of mentally unstable people such as Nikolas Cruz. But we should all want to keep guns in the hands of responsible citizens such as Stephen Willeford. That’s not the case today. Willeford deserves a medal, not a boycott. If corporate America can’t figure that out and continues capitulating to the NRA boycott movement, maybe it is time for gun owners to boycott them.”