Texas Grandmother Prevents ANOTHER Mass Shooting

Imagine being a grandmother and getting this call, "Grandma, I want to shoot up this hotel and then committ suicide when the cops arrive by making them shoot me."

That is essentially what happened to William Patrick Williams' grandmother on July 13. And she could hear him messing with the AK-47 rifle he had bought just two days earlier in the background.

Somehow, the as-yet-unidentified grandmother talked her 19-year-old grandson into letting her bring him to Covenant Medical Center in Lubbock, Tex., where he was admitted for psychiatric evaluation.

Following a brief stay in the hospital, Williams gave Lubbock police permission to enter his hotel room, informing them that he'd “laid out all his weapons on the bed.”

Officers recovered an AK-47 rifle, 17 magazines loaded with ammunition, a black trench coat, black tactical pants and fingerless gloves, and a black T-shirt with the words “Let ‘Em Come.”

Crises averted.

And here's where it get's scary.

Williams had not been on any state or federal watch list. Had his grandmother not stepped up, authorities would have never known and she probably saved not just his life-but many more.

Here's what I wrote on Facebook yesterday, and I mean it.

"The most profound problems do not have simple solutions. I wish there was something we could point to and say, "AHA! That's it!" when it comes to these shootings, but we can't. Unfortunately, we need to work together to try to identify solutions...and we can't do that either."

I just know something needs to be done. There aren't enough grandmothers like this, I'm afraid.