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Legally armed woman prevents massacre in West Virgina. It all depends on who uses the weapons …

A concealed woman with a license to carry firearms in West Virginia acted swiftly to stop a crazed man who, with an AR-15 rifle, was about to kill scores of people at a graduation ceremony.

"Instead of running away, he faced the threat and saved several lives last night," Charleston Police Chief Tony Hazelett told local news outlet WCHSTV.

The incident occurred on Wednesday when Dennis Butler, 37, got mad at a group of people hosting a graduation party who told him to make less noise in an apartment complex in Charleston. He returned 30 minutes later, parked his vehicle, jumped into the back seat and shot at the group of 30-40 people.

Unbeknownst to the shooter, a law-abiding citizen with a gun license was within the group, quickly drew her weapon and fired directly at Bulter, fatally wounding him.

"There was a graduation party, a party with some guys," Hazelett said at a news conference. “So obviously someone had just graduated from high school and there was another birthday party. We could have had a shooting with victims ”. He estimated that 30 to 40 people attended the parties.

No injuries were reported other than the gunman. The police have not yet disclosed the woman's name, although they said she is not part of the police and is only an average law-abiding citizen.

So a woman with a gun prevents a bad person with evil intentions and a long criminal record from committing mass murder. The problem is not in the weapons per se, but in how they are used …


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