An Oregon carpenter with a personal handgun walked into an elementary school and stopped a mass shooter who had already murdered four people — and the only reason more children didn't die is because a law-abiding American was armed when it mattered.
Kaylub Giamanco, 36, was driving home for lunch on Oct. 15 when he saw 16-year-old Griffin J. John II firing a shotgun at passing cars outside Bend's Silver Rail Elementary School, where two of his own daughters are enrolled. He didn't wait for police. He called 911, followed the shooter inside, and ended it.
This is the story the gun-control lobby prays you never connect. Every politician who tells you that fewer guns means safer schools has to explain why a dad with a handgun — not a SWAT team, not a lockdown drill, not a
