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Military.com<\/a> says that he was booted from the Air Force for committing domestic violence against his family;<\/p>\n The man who shot and killed at least 26 people at a Texas church on Sunday had previously served in the U.S. Air Force but received a bad-conduct discharge after being court-martialed for assaulting his wife and child, a Pentagon official said.<\/p>\n […]<\/p>\n Ann Stefanek, a spokeswoman for the service at the Pentagon, said Kelley was an airman who served in Logistics Readiness at Holloman Air Force Base, N.M., from from 2010 until his discharge.<\/p>\n Kelley was court-martialed in 2012 for two counts of Article 128 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice: assault on his spouse and assault on their child, Stefanek said. He received a bad conduct discharge, confinement for twelve months and a reduction to the grade of E-1, she said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The Bad Conduct Discharge (Big Chicken Dinner) wouldn’t necessarily prevent him from purchasing a firearm, but the domestic violence conviction would.<\/p>\n He is prohibited from buying and possessing firearms, if we are to believe the AFT Form 4473 (Question 11(i));<\/p>\n So he either purchased the gun he used illegally or he just didn’t bother to be truthful on the form and the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) failed to flag his purchase. People with criminal intent usually aren’t bothered with laws anyway.<\/p>\n There was, however, one American in legal possession of a firearm who stopped Kelley, according to the New York Post<\/a>;<\/p>\n A concerned neighbor who heard the Texas church massacre unfolding on Sunday went and grabbed his rifle and tried to stop it \u2014 opening fire on the shooter and chasing him down in a stranger\u2019s truck, a report says.<\/p>\n The man, who has not been publicly named, is being hailed online as a \u201chero\u201d after state officials described his actions during a press conference.<\/p>\n A resident told the local ABC affiliate KSAT that he teamed up with her boyfriend and the two gave chase for several minutes inside his truck before the alleged gunman, Devin Kelley, eventually crashed the car he was in.<\/p>\n Authorities said the armed neighbor may have saved countless lives by opening fire on Kelley and forcing him to flee the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs during his 11:30 a.m. massacre.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n It’s still not clear whether Kelley was killed by this citizen’s gunfire or if he offed himself, but what is clear is that more stringent gun laws would have only disarmed the hero, not the villain, in this case. <\/p>\n Update: Fox News reports that police told them that the gunman shot himself when he lost control of his vehicle, but the unnamed hero did prevent him from causing more deaths and injuries at the church.<\/p>\n However, valor thief Richard Blumenthal took the opportunity to lobby for more gun laws, according to CBS News<\/a>;<\/p>\n “Horror, heartbreak, shame. Prayers are important but insufficient. After another unspeakable tragedy, Congress must act — or be complicit,” Blumenthal wrote in the wake of the shooting.<\/p>\n “Enough is enough,” he said. “Now is the time for commonsense gun violence prevention steps. Congressional complicity must end.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n While they’re at it, Congress can make murder illegal, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/ATF-4473-300x138.jpg\")
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