The gun crowd finally has proof of a "good guy with a gun" taking out a theater shooter.

Too many times we've heard the rebuttal:   "The solution to mass shootings is to have a good guy with a gun in the crowd."    Where's the proof . . . except in old cowboy films?

Finally, we have a story of a good guy with a gun shooting a theater shooter.   Cody Denault was trained to use guns in the military, and he had his 9mm Smith and Wesson in his pocket when he went to the movies in Salinas, Kansas.

The only problem was that Cody must have skipped the lesson about gun safety -- or else the action movie was just too realistic, and Cody got caught up in the action.   It seems that he was absent-mindedly fidgeting with the gun in his pocket -- and wound up pulling the trigger, shooting himself in the leg.

So Cody was both the "good guy with a gun" and the "theater shooter," who shot himself.  Somehow, I don't think the gun crowd is going to like this as an illustration of their point.   It's now up to them to come up with their own illustration -- outside Hollywood action films.

Ralph