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Oregon father is the latest armed civilian to confront a gunman in a US mass shooting · Best of: Features

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  Oregon Father is the latest armed civilian to confront a gunman.
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  In a US mass shooting. Written by Jim Vertuno This article is
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  being read by an automated voice generated by Everlett. Few mass shootings
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  in the US end like the deadly attack on an Oregon elementary
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  school, with an armed civilian opening fire on the gunmen. President Donald
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  Trump joined others Friday in praising a father of two girls who
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  confronted a teenage gunman during the attack at Silver Rail Elementary School,
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  which killed three students and a teacher. Kenda Freeman said her son,
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  Caleb Giamanko, intervened by firing his own weapon after the shooting began
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  at his daughter's school, in the town of Bend. It's a terrible
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  thing, but thank goodness for a man that had a gun and
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  knew how to use it, Trump told reporters at the White House.
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  Giamanco, a thirty six year old carpenter, who had a. Four zero
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  caliber pistol legally stored in his vehicle, entered the school, heard shots,
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  and fired his gun after seeing a teacher fighting with the shooter,
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  Bend police Chief Mike Krantz said. Cases like the Oregon intervention remain
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  rare, according to the Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training Center at
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  Texas State University. Them Al RT Center tracked what it calls active
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  attack incidents, where the perpetrator used firearms, blades, or vehicles from 2000
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  to 2025. Out of six hundred and thirty four cases studied, three
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  hundred and seventy four ended before police arrived. Among those, twenty nine
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  ended when armed civilians shot the attacker. In another thirty one incidents,
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  civilians subdued the attacker by some other method, such as wrestling them
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  to the ground or removing the weapon. They recognize they may be
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  the only way to stop it before law enforcement arrives, said James
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  Keith, a spokesperson for the center. The heroic, good guy with a
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  gun, who can stop an attack even before law enforcement can arrive,
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  has long been a rallying cry by gun rights advocates, arguing that
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  armed citizens can act as a first line of self defense and
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  public protection. In some cases, the person who intervenes has had law
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  enforcement or military training. Other times they are just people who reacted
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  in a moment of chaos. In some states, lawmakers have sought to
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  put armed citizens in position to head off an attack as soon
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  as possible in some public spaces. Texas created a school marshal program
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  in twenty thirteen to allow trained teachers and staff to carry concealed
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  firearms on campus. It expanded safety programs and requirements for armed security
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  and personnel at schools after mass shootings at a high school near
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  Houston in twenty eighteen, and at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde in
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  twenty twenty two. Texas has some of the least restrictive gun control
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  laws in the country, according to the Gifford's Law Center to prevent
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  gun violence. The group rates Oregon among the strongest. Some prominent examples
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  of armed citizens who confronted gunmen to help stop mass shootings. Twin
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  Falls, Idaho, in and out. A gunman killed three people and wounded
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  seven more at an in out burger on august third. Law enforcement
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  authorities said the gunman may have killed more, if not for an
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  off duty officer who was a customer at the restaurant, and an
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  armed civilian who exchanged fire with the gunman. Jordan Salinas said he
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  didn't hesitate to grab his gun and confront the gunman when he
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  saw people fleeing the restaurant and heard gunfire. Under return fire, the
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  gunman retreated and ultimately killed himself. He did not like it when
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  bullets started flying both ways, Salinas told the Idaho statesman. There's a
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  task that needs to be done, and we're the ones who need
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  to do it. White Settlement, Texas,
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  church Shooting. In december twenty nineteen, a man wearing a disguise and
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  a trench coat pulled out a shotgun and killed two people during
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  Sunday service at West Freeway Church of Christ before he was killed
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  by Jack Wilson, a seventy one year old firearms instructor who had
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  also been a reserve sheriff's deputy. Wilson stayed calm as worshippers scrambled
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  for cover. The only clear shot I had was his head because
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  I still had people in the pews, that were not all the
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  way down as low as they could. That was my one shot,
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  Wilson said in twenty nineteen. Sutherland Springs, Texas, Church Shooting A gunman
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  killed twenty six people at a small town church in twenty seventeen.
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  Stephen Williford, a former National Rifle Association instructor, who lived across the
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  street, grabbed his rifle and ran in his bare feet to open
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  fire at the attacker, wounding him. The gunman fled, and Williford flagged
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  down a passing driver. The two men chased after the gunman, who
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  eventually killed himself. I kept hearing the shots. Pop, pop, pop, when
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  the gunfire started at the church, Willeford said in twenty seventeen, and
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  I knew every one of those shots represented someone, that it was
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  aimed at someone.