Eastern Florida State’s rescinding its ban on guns after a student was attacked is a hopeful sign that the tide is turning on campus attitudes toward the Second Amendment.

Southern Methodist University student Hayley Waring offers some related observations, based on another incident.

Have you heard or read about the terrible shooting that took place in Alabama earlier this month? Has this horrific incident been covered by every minor and major news station out there? Have you mourned alongside the rest of the nation at the senseless loss of life? No? Well, that’s because the shooting didn’t actually happen, at least not in the way that the shooter probably intended.

When a deranged man entered a Dollar General, waving his gun in the air and promising to kill customers, his intentions were clear and numerous lives hung in grave danger. So why didn’t you hear about the incident? Unlike other recent gun related tragedies, this one did not result in the loss of innocent lives. A customer in the store happened to be carrying a concealed firearm and ended the gunman’s life before he could end anyone else’s.

….There’s another reason this story hasn’t received much attention: it goes against the anti-Second Amendment narrative pushed by left wing journalists. Gun control didn’t stop a potential killer on a random Thursday in Alabama, but rather a law abiding, gun owning, American citizen did. This story doesn’t align with their notion that guns (and their owners) are inherently bad.

… Because they don’t align with the anti-gun, anti-liberty, anti-responsible citizen twisted logic of modern American liberalism. For the same reason you probably won’t hear that while gun sales have consistently increased over the last 20 years, homicides from firearms have decreased by 39% and other firearm related crimes by 69%. You definitely won’t hear that approximately 200,000 women use guns every year to protect themselves from sexual crime. And it’s unlikely that any mainstream outlet is going to educate you on the fact that while the United States is home to the largest number of gun owners we are only 28th in the world in gun related murders per 100,000 people.

At the end of the day, these facts highlight the compelling interest Americans should have in securing our Second Amendment rights. The bad guys will find guns, and they will enter schools or movie theaters or Dollar Generals with a sick and twisted intention. Gun control legislation will not stop them. The promise of conviction will not stop them. The only thing that will stop them is a good guy with a gun. And thank God there was a good guy with a gun in that Dollar General in Alabama. And because of that good guy we don’t have to mourn a massacre or cry along with parents who lost their children and that is certainly something to celebrate.