Posted on 12/10/2007 10:58:54 AM PST by Luke Skyfreeper
Guns are TIGHT.
And I'll bet we find out she puts in some serious range time ... which reminds me ...
Like many other words and phrases in our country, hero is losing some of its meaning by excessive usage
Tell that to the people that were inside that church. She was a hero.
If it was my ass she just saved, she’d sure be my hero!!
What did he get wrong?
Is she single?
;-)
The old Greek term for “strike” (to which one is to “turn the other cheek”) is more akin to insult, slap, or other minor harm - distinct from grave physical injury.
When directed to go out on their own without Christ’s immediate physical presence, they were told to take their wallets, bags, ... and swords.
A bit off topic, but I bet she is not considering herself a hero, she is probably giving full credit to God.
In mags? He musta clanked when he walked... and probably couldn't move terribly fast. My bet is that he just strode in thinking he was Mr. Terminator.
No Second Place Winner, Pal.
She’s a hero in my book. Anybody who faces down an armed man with body armor and a rifle..with a handgun needed to perform with skill,cool nerves and a steady hand.
Give her a medal. I don’t care if she was paid or not.
Convincing acting job, huh?
I much rather use the term "hero" for the brave, selfless people who act to save lives than on the volumes of sports figures such as the notorious O.J.was once called, and other football and basketball players have been called. They are held up to our youth as something heroic when they do NOTHING heroic at all. They practice, they play well and they are simply doing their jobs, and being paid very well to do them. They and their employers get amazingly rich because of people who idolize them, and their actions in the games they play as professional athletes are far from selfless. That is where the word "Hero" has been overused and abused - not in instances like this event where the woman put her own life on the line for the sake of protecting others -- paid or not.
See #108.
One of the male victims who was shot in the left arm was interviewed on the local media. He stated “I was keeping a promise I made to myself after the Columbine shooting. That was if I were ever in a situation where a gunman is shooting women and children I would run toward the gunman and try to do something. Even if I were unarmed.”
This is exactly what he did. He and the female guard rushed the shooter. He stated the guard fired 10-12 times and when they reached the shooter he was covered with blood and sliding down the wall. He stated the shooter had four weapons and he took the shooters handgun in case it was needed further.
This man is also a hero in my book.
I am stunned and shocked to hear what you just said. I was much more expecting a member of The Religion of Peace.
In any event, whatever he was, it doesn’t take away from this lady’s heroism. This guy went into a packed church with a gun, body armor and 500 rounds of ammo - and she stopped him cold.
This needs to be repeated....
VOLUNTEER CIVILIAN PARISHONER...
HER OWN PERSONAL WEAPON...
Just think what would have happened had this been a gun free zone and the heroic...YES..heroic woman did not rush toward the animal.
God bless her courage.
Wow.
For the same reason we don't sell all of our possessions and give them to the poor.
Did you sell your cloak, or do you have a purse?
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