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When a bystander fired on the Texas church shooter, the NRA found its hero

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On his show this week, Grant Stinchfield, a conservative talk show host on the NRA's online television network, commended longtime NRA member Stephen Willeford for using his NRA training to conceal himself and find a flat platform to fire off shots at Devin Patrick Kelley, who killed dozens inside the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas.

The massacre in Texas has ignited both sides of the gun debate, with gun-rights supporters trumpeting Willeford as an example of the need for access to firearms and gun-control advocates saying the tragedy proves again it is too easy for people to get a gun.