Movie producer J.P. Johnston is giving away a DPMS AR-15 on Christmas Day to honor Stephen Willeford’s courageous stand against Texas church attacker Devin Kelley.
After being alerted to gunshots at the church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, Willeford ran out of his house barefooted with an AR-15 and a handful of bullets to confront Kelley, ultimately shooting him and forcing him to flee the scene.
Johnston’s AR-15 giveaway is happening as his new film, The Reliant, is about to be released in theaters. The film stars Kevin Sorbo, Brian Bosworth, Mollee Gray, and Eric Roberts. It focuses on faith and family. It presents a scenario where”the economy collapses, widespread rioting and looting leaves a 19-year-old lovesick girl struggling to care for her four younger siblings in a stretch of woods on the outskirts of their burning town, wondering why a good God would let this happen.”
It features family members standing in defense of other family members, and using guns to do it.
The Reliant was written to deal with gnawing questions like, “Why do bad things happen to good people?” The goal of the film is to answer such questions “in a memorable, entertaining way that honors God, satisfies the conscience, and strengthens your faith.”
Standard Newswire reported the AR-15 giveaway and asked producer Johnston why he would give away the type of gun used by the Texas church attacker.
Johnston posited Stephen Willeford’s heroic use of the same gun as the reason. He added:
Who knows how many Sunday services the murderer [Devin Kelley] would have visited if it weren’t for the courage of Stephen Willeford. But his courage wouldn’t have amounted to much more than a brave death if it weren’t for the Second Amendment. Our forefathers knew that arms in the hands of the law-abiding was necessary to protect against criminals and tyrants. That’s why they secured this right in the Bill of Rights, and required our leaders to take an oath to uphold and defend it.
Johnston says, “The Reliant is subtle, yet relevant and winsome in its defense of the right to keep and bear arms.”
AWR Hawkins is the Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and host of Bullets with AWR Hawkins, a Breitbart News podcast. He is also the political analyst for Armed American Radio. Follow him on Twitter: @AWRHawkins. Reach him directly at awrhawkins@breitbart.com
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