Colion Noir on the Armed Dad Who Stopped the Bend School Shooter

Colion Noir breaks down the school shooting in Bend, Oregon, where he says a 16-year-old fired through the locked doors of Silver Rail Elementary, killing three children and a teacher, before a carpenter named Caleb followed the gunman inside with his concealed carry pistol and stopped him. Noir answers, point by point, an Instagram user who argued the story shouldn't be used against gun control.

Key points

• Timeline: Noir notes the first 911 call came in at 12:59 and officers arrived at 1:02, with Caleb, who has two daughters at the school, already engaging the shooter.
• The weapon: he cites an AP report that the gun was a pump-action shotgun the shooter's mother had bought.
• Laws already broken: Noir points out the shooter was a minor who couldn't legally buy the gun or carry it on campus.
• Local policy: he says Bend-La Pine schools banned concealed carry permit holders from campus in 2021, a rule that only restrained Caleb.

Quick take

Noir's case is that locked doors and local laws were tried and failed, and that an armed civilian who chose to act is what stood between the kids and the shooter. Whether or not you share his politics, the timeline is worth hearing from him directly.

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