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CNN: "Female Security Guard Hailed as Hero"... "saved 'hundreds of lives'"
www.cnn.com ^ | December 10, 2007 | CNN

Posted on 12/10/2007 10:58:54 AM PST by Luke Skyfreeper

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado (CNN) -- A Colorado Springs megachurch instituted security precautions after a shooting at a Denver area mission center earlier Sunday, saving "hundreds of lives" at the New Life Church, senior Pastor Brady Boyd said Monday.

A New Life parishioner acting as a security guard shot and killed a gunman who entered the church Sunday afternoon after he had gotten no more than 50 feet inside the building, Boyd said.

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Boyd said the female security guard was a hero in preventing further bloodshed, rushing to confront the gunman just inside the church.

"She probably saved over a hundred lives," Boyd said of the guard, whom he said is not a law enforcement officer and used her personal weapon.

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"Hundreds of lives were saved yesterday because of the plan that was put in place," said Boyd, who put the number of people on the church campus at the time as 7,000.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: armedcitizen; banglist; castledoctrine; ccw; guns; gutsygal; heroes; heroine; jeanneassam; leo; militia; newlifechurch; rkba; winner
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To: CodeToad
He is 24 years old but the press wants to make hay of his home schooling, as though that turned him into a lonely and crazed loser.

In fairness, for 24 hours, he was a muslim on Free Republic.

341 posted on 12/10/2007 1:30:34 PM PST by the808bass
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To: JustaDumbBlonde

Well....your entitled to your opinion....but to me, this woman deserves special attention....


342 posted on 12/10/2007 1:32:34 PM PST by Halgr (Once a Marine, always a Marine - Semper Fi)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

Your buddy is wise.


343 posted on 12/10/2007 1:32:52 PM PST by mad_as_he$$ ("Has there been a code nine? Have you heard from the Doctor?")
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To: Luke Skyfreeper
Yep, this woman performed her job exceptionally well. Bigtime kudos.

As far as CNN not being shy about reporting this story, that easy: A) A woman saved the day; B) She was a security guard -- hired to protect the church.

It it were a male member of the congregation with a CCW permit who killed the perp CNN wouldn't be so enthusiastic, to put it mildly.

344 posted on 12/10/2007 1:35:19 PM PST by Mr. Mojo
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To: Publius6961
Looks like you missed the part where it's made clear that the shooter was a volunter parishioner, not a hired guard... ?

Add to that the fact that she used her personal weapon -- it is not referred to as a *service revolver* or such that police officers/hired security have their weapons named.

345 posted on 12/10/2007 1:35:31 PM PST by MozarkDawg
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To: Mr. Mojo

Ah, I see she was a volunteer. Great job regardless.


346 posted on 12/10/2007 1:37:25 PM PST by Mr. Mojo
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To: papertyger
You know your capabilities better than anyone else, and my money would be on you in any kind of altercation.

That being said, have you ever considered the possibilities now that backpacks have become damn near ubiquitous?

True enough, as are day planners and laptop computer bags. But backpacks, even fanny packs aren't real common at church services, at least not here in my neck of the woods.

What does work pretty well for me, when something more than *just* what can be worn needs to be close at hand. is the little olive vinyl surplus bag that can double as either a bookbag, or handy tote, and from even a slight distance resembles a designer purse or carryall. But it's actually a Swiss Army gas mask bag, and is a double for the second one in my truck, which contains, among other things, a gas mask. And, in one of its outside pouches, six more loaded M1911 magazines for my M1911 or Commander. Other novelties reside in an under-seat toolbox.

347 posted on 12/10/2007 1:37:38 PM PST by archy (Et Thybrim multo spumantem sanguine cerno. [from Virgil's *Aeneid*.])
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To: mad_as_he$$
What would you call the Deputy Sheriff that turned and ran “to get help” at Columbine?

I remember watching those heavily armed Columbine cowards on live television. This brave woman has the right idea: run toward the gunfire, be ready to kill.

348 posted on 12/10/2007 1:38:35 PM PST by aculeus
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To: Squantos
Memo to self....add another spare mag to CHL loadout.

Sucks, doesn't it? I hate having to think like that on Shabbat.

349 posted on 12/10/2007 1:38:46 PM PST by Carry_Okie (Duncan Hunter for President)
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To: epow; NonValueAdded
Do you think the Swiss guard at the Vatican are only armed with those funny sticks? I assure you they are very capable of killing for the Pope.

There are many who think they do with some regularity.

350 posted on 12/10/2007 1:40:19 PM PST by mad_as_he$$ ("Has there been a code nine? Have you heard from the Doctor?")
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To: RKV
I have read elsewhere that she was a CCW permit holder.

The "Security Guard" title is just media spin to avoid the calling her an "Armed Citizen."

351 posted on 12/10/2007 1:40:20 PM PST by Jeff Gordon ("An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile hoping it will eat him last." Churchill)
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To: montag813
Where did she shoot him and how many shells did she get off?

More important, where did she hit him and how many bullets hit him in vital spots.

352 posted on 12/10/2007 1:42:27 PM PST by TYVets (God so loved the world he didn't send a committee)
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To: Gritty

That may be the type of carry rig that I need.


353 posted on 12/10/2007 1:42:36 PM PST by Deaf Smith
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To: PsyOp

“Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger, but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.” - Sir Walter Scott.

Likewise, courage is not the lack of fear - it is action in spite of fear. Paraphrasing Sam in Once An Eagle. Great book.

Colonel, USAFR


354 posted on 12/10/2007 1:48:22 PM PST by jagusafr ("Bugs, Mr. Rico! Zillions of 'em!" - Robert Heinlein)
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To: barb-tex
Must be an excellent marksman to take him down with a vest on.

Just heard on Fox...

Her first shot(s) took him down but did not kill him. As she was covering him he started to handle a grenade. She said something like "Don't do it dude." He ignored her. She blew him away.

355 posted on 12/10/2007 1:53:52 PM PST by Jeff Gordon ("An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile hoping it will eat him last." Churchill)
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To: archy
The local cops were a little bent out of shape at my ideas of the right equipment and way to do things in the event of a sniper situation hereabouts, too.

rotflmao, I can't imagine why. ;-)

356 posted on 12/10/2007 1:55:11 PM PST by Carry_Okie (Duncan Hunter for President)
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To: jagusafr

Well said...Thanks!


357 posted on 12/10/2007 1:55:47 PM PST by Guenevere (Duncan Hunter...President '08)
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To: papertyger

Thanks I just spit my wine over the keyboard,LOL


358 posted on 12/10/2007 1:55:57 PM PST by bikerman (_ _ . /_ _ _ /_ . . / / . . . . / . / . _ . . / . _ _ . / / . . _ / . . . //)
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To: Luke Skyfreeper

Very inspiring—in more ways than one.


359 posted on 12/10/2007 2:00:37 PM PST by djreece ("... Until He leads justice to victory." Matt. 12:20c)
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To: JustaDumbBlonde

LOL, have you got it figure out yet?


360 posted on 12/10/2007 2:03:34 PM PST by Rb ver. 2.0 (Global warming is the new Marxism.)
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