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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: DoughtyOne

A “hero” is someone who goes way beyond their chosen/assigned duties, at great personal cost above any risk inherent in the job.


61 posted on 12/10/2007 11:13:52 AM PST by ctdonath2 (The color blue tastes like the square root of 0?)
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To: Luke Skyfreeper
Police said a man with a beard, wearing a dark jacket, glasses, and skullcap, entered the facility, got into a dispute with a staff member about whether he could stay there for the night, and then opened fire.

Hmmm...and the police have not released the shooter's identity for some reason. Maybe I'm paranoid, but this suspiciously sounds like a Religion of Peace incident.

62 posted on 12/10/2007 11:14:24 AM PST by Virginia Ridgerunner (“We must not forget that there is a war on and our troops are in the thick of it!” --Duncan Hunter)
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To: Sloth

If the gunman had an automatic weapon and there were thousands at the church, it’s not hard to extrapolate “hundreds” being spared.


63 posted on 12/10/2007 11:14:27 AM PST by Guenevere (Duncan Hunter...President '08)
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To: Anitius Severinus Boethius
... And she ran towards the shots. I wish some other Colorado law enforcement would have had her desire to save lives around 8 years ago.

Or those macho, posturing, SWAT types in Blacksburg, VA eight months ago...

64 posted on 12/10/2007 11:14:30 AM PST by Publius6961 (MSM: Israelis are killed by rockets; Lebanese are killed by Israelis.)
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To: Luke Skyfreeper
This wasn't in the body of the article, but for posterity, the following is off of the top right of the CNN page.

Story Highlights

(Bolding emphasis mine.)

65 posted on 12/10/2007 11:14:43 AM PST by Fixit (That's your militia, right there!)
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To: Travis McGee

“The alleged gunman in the shootings at New Life Church in Colorado Springs, Colorado, is 23-year-old Matthew Murray, CNN confirms.”


66 posted on 12/10/2007 11:14:58 AM PST by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: Luke Skyfreeper
I'm confused. Too many shooting headlines in the last week.

Is this the same shooting that four missionaries were killed a few days ago? Or is this like the third church shooting in the last week?

67 posted on 12/10/2007 11:14:59 AM PST by Domandred (Eagles soar, but unfortunately weasels never get sucked into jet engines)
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To: ctdonath2

Okay, then there are no heros in Iraq. I appreciate the update.

I guess I’ll just have to be the only one objecting to this definition of a hero.


68 posted on 12/10/2007 11:15:12 AM PST by DoughtyOne (California, where the death penalty is reserved for wholesome values. SB 777)
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To: Coldwater Creek
I would say so, considering the shooter had body armor and a helmet on.

This seems to be a disturbing trend among the whack-job class.

Making the FN Five-seveN increasingly more attractive.

69 posted on 12/10/2007 11:15:13 AM PST by papertyger (changing words quickly metastasizes into changing facts -- Ann Coulter)
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To: Luke Skyfreeper

Now, this is the kind of woman who should be running for POTUS, not “anti-saint Hillary of perpetual victimhood”.


71 posted on 12/10/2007 11:15:54 AM PST by khnyny (Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed. Winston Churchill)
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To: Travis McGee

Of note: GA forbids carry in churches.


72 posted on 12/10/2007 11:16:04 AM PST by ctdonath2 (The color blue tastes like the square root of 0?)
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To: Publius6961
All we get in the first paragraph is that a parishioner shot and killed a visitor to the church.

Many "visitors" will think twice about attending this church.

Why didn't the security "volunteer" TURN THE OTHER CHEEK, as we are often counseled in our faith?

73 posted on 12/10/2007 11:16:18 AM PST by nonsporting
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To: JustaDumbBlonde

A hero is someone who selflessly performs an unpleasant task without regard to their own well being because of their concern for the welfare of strangers.

Their training and their job are irrelevant to the definition.

Soldiers in Iraq are heros. Policeman are heros. Firemen are heros. The passengers on flight 93 were heros. This woman is a hero.

This is not a watered-down definition. Under my definition, parents are not heros (the concern is for non-strangers). Mercenaries and bounty-hunters are not heros (their concern is payment of a large reward).

So I disagree that use of the term “hero” is inappropriate in this case.


74 posted on 12/10/2007 11:16:20 AM PST by kidd
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To: Southack

Thanks


75 posted on 12/10/2007 11:16:39 AM PST by From One - Many (Trust the Old Media At Your Own Risk. I Will Be Voting for Mr. Duncan Hunter, fellow FReepers.)
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To: JustaDumbBlonde

“Like many other words and phrases in our country, hero is losing some of its meaning by excessive usage.”

Hero is getting diluted but she is a hero. She coulda run the other way and called police. Heck the police in Columbine didn’t even take as much action as she did.

You can do your job and be a hero. BTW, she was a volunteer and so technically it wasn’t even a job.


76 posted on 12/10/2007 11:17:24 AM PST by driftdiver
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To: Travis McGee
She was just a civilian parishoner like any other, who volunteered for security duty, unpaid, no uniform, using her own personal weapon.

Sounds like the Founding Fathers had it right again.

77 posted on 12/10/2007 11:17:52 AM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: DocH

Eloquently spoken.


78 posted on 12/10/2007 11:18:01 AM PST by Luke Skyfreeper
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner
I just image googled "Beard skullcap glasses."

If he's not a rabbi, he's like a member of the ROP.

79 posted on 12/10/2007 11:18:54 AM PST by Travis McGee (---www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com---)
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To: Luke Skyfreeper

I will also, and God Bless this brave woman!


80 posted on 12/10/2007 11:19:19 AM PST by seekthetruth
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