After Massacre, a Texas Town Says More Guns Are the Answer

SUTHERLAND SPRINGS -- With horror, the mother realized the thunderous bangs near her house were gunfire. She grabbed her three children and two firearms, and hid in the bathroom, shaking and scared. "The only sense of protection that I felt like I had were those guns in my house," said Lagena Garcia, 31. The mass shooting at First Baptist Church that killed 26 people and wounded 20 others has not made the residents of this rural area east of San Antonio reconsider their belief in guns. It has only reinforced the sense that the answer to America's mass shooting problem is not gun control. It's more guns -- more guns in the hands of good people who can stop the bad guy.  Continue reading...

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