CNN: "Female Security Guard Hailed as Hero"... "saved 'hundreds of lives'"

www.cnn.com ^ | December 10, 2007 | CNN

[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.

...

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.

[Luke Skyfreeper]

I think hell just froze over. This is the lead story at CNN.com.

According to what I've read, this guy had a rifle, was wearing a ballistic vest and tactical helmet, and his pockets were BULGING with tons of ammunition.

And she "rushed toward him and took him down in the hallway as he entered the church," where 7000 people were present.

FABULOUS job by this FEMALE ARMED CIVILIAN, credited by the pastor with probably saving over a hundred lives.

[woofie]

Just on the radio ....HERO!!!!!!

[Eric in the Ozarks]

What did she shoot him with ?

[Redbob]

Satan is stuck up to his waist in ice!

CNN reported this?
Without trying to find a “downside” or a “contrasting opinion” about this her’s action?

[khnyny]

Wow!

[hattend]

You mean by not having law abiding people denied their rights to carry actually saves lives?

This from CNN?

WOW!!

[woofie]

That was abc news

[Drawsing]

Very good shoot.

[JustaDumbBlonde]

I really don't understand this trend in this country to hail people as heroes for doing the job they were hired to do. Yes, this woman did a very good job and did save many lives, but that is why she was hired. I heard the pastor saying that the guard was there because there was alarm about the shooting near Denver.

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

[Luke Skyfreeper]

2 people killed by the perpetrator, 3 more wounded. And obviously he was armed, armored up and intent on killing dozens or hundreds of people. But a legally armed civilian "rushed toward him" and took him down as he was entering the church.

Man, I will be thinking about this all day.

[VirginiaConstitutionalist]

This makes you feel terrible for the security guards at the Omaha mall, who weren’t allowed to carry guns and had to watch along with everyone else. Their employer’s decision must torture them.

Guns save lives.

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

She was a volunteer, she wasn’t “hired” or “paid”. 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.

[RKV]

I have read elsewhere that she was a CCW permit holder. Not a paid security guard. FWIW.

[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

Awesome! This is why Jesus told us to keep “swords” (Luke 22:36).

[Luke Skyfreeper]

I really don't understand this trend in this country to hail people as heroes for doing the job they were hired to do. Yes, this woman did a very good job and did save many lives, but that is why she was hired.

SHE WAS NOT "HIRED." SHE WAS A VOLUNTEER, A CIVILIAN MEMBER OF THE CHURCH.

[Publius6961]

According to what I've read, this guy had a rifle, was wearing a ballistic vest and tactical helmet, and his pockets were BULGING with tons of ammunition.

Astonishingly, that "little" fact did not lead the story.
All we get in the first paragraph is that a parishioner shot and killed a visitor to the church.

*shaking head*

[Sloth]

“Hundreds” may be an exaggeration, but there’s no doubt she saved many.

[ctdonath2]

Her involvement will be spun as “armed guard” instead of “RKBA-exercising parishioner”.

[Luke Skyfreeper]

CNN.com has it as lead story right now.

[nuconvert]

Quick thinking. Quick reaction. Good Shootin!

Give this woman a medal!