‘Carnage would have been greater’: Man who stopped Texas church shooter rips Bloomberg gun policies

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The armed parishioner who saved lives when he shot and killed an active shooter at a church in rural Texas last month warned against gun policy proposed by surging 2020 Democratic candidate Mike Bloomberg.

Jack Wilson, 71, was attending mass on Dec. 29 at the West Freeway Church of Christ in White Settlement, Texas, when a masked man entered the church, pulled a gun out, and began firing on congregants. A local firearms instructor, Wilson fired a single shot from his handgun that killed the man as parishioners screamed and ran away in horror.

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