Ariz. senate candidate who fatally shot mother calls for more 'good guys' with guns

[jpak]

Source: AOL.com

An Arizona Senate candidate who shot and killed his mother in self-defense is using the gruesome childhood memory to back his anti-gun control rhetoric.

“The only way to stop a crazy madman killing innocent people is you better have a good guy there with a gun,” GOP candidate Bobby Wilson told crowds brought together Moms Demand Action in a Tuscon church earlier this month. “I’m here to tell you I'm living proof of that.”

Gun control advocates broke out into heckles and boos at the start of his remarks, but they were stunned silent when Wilson detailed how he fatally shot and killed a crazed attacker in self-defense more than 50 years ago.

“When I was 18 years old, someone was hell-bent on killing me in my sleep one night,” he recalled. “It’s three o’clock in the morning, I wake up to find a rifle in my face — a semiautomatic rifle at that — and the bullets started to fly and I started diving for cover.”

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[bucolic_frolic]

1. God gave us brains

but ant colonies exhibit more discipline

and without crazy madmen

[hlthe2b]

2. They tried him twice, so I think there is more to THAT story....

[saidsimplesimon]

3. There is more to the story

The article was written by a reporter at the Arizona Republic. I read it this morning on MSN, link provided below, easier than finding it on Arizona Central.

He may have been acquitted, he did originally confess, then recanted.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/arizona-senate-candidate-who-killed-his-mother-supports-good-guys-with-guns/ar-AAAaqd5

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The tale begins in Hugo, Oklahoma, in 1963, when Wilson was 18 years old. It includes charges of familial murder, a home destroyed by fire, years of amnesia and the start of a winding path that led a young man to a legal career and, now, ambitions to serve in the Arizona Legislature.
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Both his 49-year-old mother and 17-year-old sister died that night, as Wilson recalled in a 2010 memoir about the event. The book, "Bobby's Trials," was published by Apache Publishing Company, a small Arizona-based publisher operated by Wilson's wife. The publisher has printed four other books by Wilson.
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Those records show he was charged with the murder of his mother and sister, and soon after his arrest he confessed to those charges. He later recanted his confession and claimed he had amnesia about the events of the night in question.
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Newspaper, court accounts of killings are much different

Details reported at the time in a local newspaper, in addition to court records from Wilson's case, both differ significantly in numerous regards from Wilson's account to The Republic.

The Choctaw County Weekly, a publication that compiled articles from multiple area papers, published several stories about the events in the days following the deaths and fire.

much more at the link

[SWBTATTReg]

4. Sounds like this guy could have setup the whole thing against the mother and sister too, just as

easily, and they (the authorities) didn't find him 'innocent', they simply didn't file anything against him the third time around, so he got off w/o defending against any charges, probably because of a lack of evidence (he said, she said type of thing).

I am surprised that if someone was wanting to kill this particular guy, that they missed a sleeping target (him). They didn't miss the sister. Rather odd. If they didn't miss one target, why would they miss another target? All of this story is based upon, you guessed it, this senate candidate's own biased bio.

And then even more crazier, his story of blindly leaping in the dark from a bed after being fully asleep, find a gun, fire that gun at the intruder, and actually hit the intruder, let alone kill them smacks of disbelief.

If I were a jury, I'd seriously question the prosecutors and how they brought up the charge(s) against this guy wanting to be a rep, and failed to secure a conviction...either that or the county ran out of money by then and he got off scot-free w/ murder (twice). I'd be very nervous voting for someone like this, especially w/ no firm proof that he didn't do the crime, which should be readily available one would think...

[Canoe52]

5. Reminds me of an old Yiddish joke: The definition of "chutzpah":

Killing both your parents, and then throwing yourself on the mercy of the court as an orphan.