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07-18-2018, 12:10 AM
PHOENIX (AP) — A Republican Arizona state Senate candidate has shocked gun control advocates by sharing details about shooting and killing his mother in apparent self-defense more than 50 years ago.
Bobby Wilson, who is running to represent a southern Arizona district, told The Associated Press that he’s not trying to hide anything. He says his mother was “insane” and shot at him with a rifle when he was in bed in their Oklahoma farmhouse one night in 1963. He then shot and killed her — Wilson’s sister also died that night, and the house caught on fire.
“I’m lucky to be alive, twice over,” Wilson said.
Wilson wrote about these events in his 2010 book “Bobby’s Trials” and also mentions them on his website biography. But they caught public interest when he appeared at a Moms Demand Action forum in Tucson earlier this month. Wilson told the crowd he was “living proof” that the only one who can stop someone trying to harm somebody is a “good guy with a gun.”
https://apnews.com/26d1958b2c77480c9a6ec7a7958e48c4?utm_source=Twitte r&utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_medium=AP
Bobby Wilson, who is running to represent a southern Arizona district, told The Associated Press that he’s not trying to hide anything. He says his mother was “insane” and shot at him with a rifle when he was in bed in their Oklahoma farmhouse one night in 1963. He then shot and killed her — Wilson’s sister also died that night, and the house caught on fire.
“I’m lucky to be alive, twice over,” Wilson said.
Wilson wrote about these events in his 2010 book “Bobby’s Trials” and also mentions them on his website biography. But they caught public interest when he appeared at a Moms Demand Action forum in Tucson earlier this month. Wilson told the crowd he was “living proof” that the only one who can stop someone trying to harm somebody is a “good guy with a gun.”
https://apnews.com/26d1958b2c77480c9a6ec7a7958e48c4?utm_source=Twitte r&utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_medium=AP