In Texas, good guy with a gun took on bad guy with a gun, feeding both sides of gun control debate
by Matt Pearce, John Savage and Nina Agrawal, Los Angeles Times
Nov 07, 2017
4 minutes
SUTHERLAND SPRINGS, Texas - The killer wore a bulletproof vest and a face mask with a white skull on it.
Devin Kelley had a history of domestic violence on his military record that should have barred him from owning guns, but he was armed with a 5.56-mm Ruger semiautomatic rifle that he was allowed to buy because of a bureaucratic error by the U.S. Air Force.
By contrast, his adversary, Stephen Willeford, was barefoot.
Willeford was at home Sunday in Sutherland Springs when his daughter first heard the shooting next door at the First Baptist Church, and he went over to see what was happening. He had
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