{"id":202168,"date":"2012-07-20T13:23:50","date_gmt":"2012-07-20T18:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=202168"},"modified":"2012-07-22T17:05:09","modified_gmt":"2012-07-22T22:05:09","slug":"gun-talk-host-shares-thoughts-on-colorado-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=202168","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Gun Talk&#8221; Host Shares Thoughts on Colorado Shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=202186\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-202186\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2012\/07\/thumb_tom_gresham.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"thumb_tom_gresham\" width=\"104\" height=\"120\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-202186\" \/><\/a>TYLER \u2014 Well-known gun rights advocate Tom Gresham, host of KTBB\u2019s \u201cGun Talk,\u201d weighs in on Friday\u2019s Colorado shooting tragedy in an exclusive KTBB interview. From now into early next week, we\u2019ll be sharing some of his thoughts on the incident, which he terms \u201ctragic\u201d and the work of \u201ca deranged madman.\u201d<br \/>\nAmong other things, Gresham says, \u201cIf there had been someone there \u201cwho had a firearm and had training and had the right mindset, something could have been done.\u201d Gresham doubts the incident could have been stopped, but he thinks an armed and trained person might have been able to diminish the tragedy\u2019s toll. Gresham cites a recent incident in Florida in which a 71-year-old man took on two men wielding a gun and a baseball bat at an Internet cafe. According to Gresham, \u201cHe moved decisively, he moved well, he had training, and he knew what he was doing, and he saved a lot of people.\u201d Gresham says people often suggest calling the police in such situations. To that, he responds with his familiar mantra, \u201cWhen seconds count, police are just minutes away.\u201d<br \/>\nGresham also has some advice on gathering in a movie theater or auditorium: don\u2019t sit in the middle of a row, but choose an aisle seat. Gresham says, \u201cIf you\u2019re in the middle of the row, you\u2019re trapped \u2014 you can\u2019t do anything.\u201d Keep it on KTBB and ktbb.com for more from Tom Gresham.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER \u2014 Well-known gun rights advocate Tom Gresham, host of KTBB\u2019s \u201cGun Talk,\u201d weighs in on Friday\u2019s Colorado shooting tragedy in an exclusive KTBB interview. From now into early next week, we\u2019ll be sharing some of his thoughts on the incident, which he terms \u201ctragic\u201d and the work of \u201ca deranged madman.\u201d Among other things, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=202168\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Gun Talk&#8221; Host Shares Thoughts on Colorado Shooting<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-03 01:25:45","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=202168"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":202429,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202168\/revisions\/202429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=202168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=202168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=202168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}