A Hero Among Us

10 December, 2007 | joanie-f

[yorkie]

I read that his gun jammed as he tried to shoot her. Anybody know if that is the truth?

If it IS, that makes this a MAJOR miracle, IMHO!!

[joanie-f]

Hooray Jeanne Assam!

I second your sentiment, and your enthusiasm. :)

[geopyg]

From what I recall from her interview she walked towards him while firing and he fired several (three?) shots at her. She hit him and he went down but still had control of his weapon. She told him to drop the weapon and he didn’t, and then he reached for what looked like a hand grenade (possible smoke “bomb” similar to the others he tossed outside??). Anyway, as he was going for what she thought was a grenade she fired again. So perhaps his weapon did jam after he got a few shots off in her direction??

[PROCON]

This story just re-enforces the reason that I, as a church usher always sit in the back of the church, often roam the lobby and parking lot, and always keep the Glock 19, 9mm fully loaded with hollow point and planted firmly in my holster under my clothing; all legal and safe, doncha know!

[Freedom2specul8]

Thank you for the Joanie, and the ping Nicmarlo..

[GOP Poet]

Yes. Yesterday was a true miracle. Her day to day commitment to the Lord and His direction even when she was feeling confused about her direction and calling has allowed this miracle to come to fruition. What astounded me most from start to finish was how strongly she was directed here. She trusted that guidance and continued throughout it all to ask for protection, guidance and direction. She had no idea where she was being led or what the outcome would be but she trusted each new leading and step with strong action and faith. Bless her.

She has become a great role model and also a great reminder for others to rely upon the Lord God in all things through fear, through confusion, through a clear mission with a heavy, profound weight. Her actions have far transcended the circumstance and God has used her thus and I am so very, very grateful.

Thank you joanie for this post. It makes me cry in astonishment at God's power and leading the more I read and get to know all that went on for her surrounding her actions that day and her personal life proceeding (the third day of a fast specifically in regards to her direction!). Wow. Continue to bless her Lord and Jeanne if you happen to be one of us . . . thank you.

[yorkie]

Thanks, geo. BTW - love your tag-line!

[anymouse]

I just knew what I had to do. It seemed like it was me, the gunman, and God.

I knew that I could not let this man harm any more people. I said, 'God, this is you.' I asked Him to be with me and He never left my side.

I want to do His will and not my will. Where I was weak, God made me strong. He filled me, He guided me, He protected me, and many other people.

Assam fired off about a dozen shots, three of which managed to circumvent Murray's body armor, and all of which were fired while he was moving in her direction.

'How awesome and powerful God is.'

She continued ... 'I've had some quiet time with God and have had a lot of people pray with me. I'm even more in awe of Him than I was before.'

The lord works in mysterious and awesome ways. Evil was stopped today through a combination of providence, a young woman's vigilance and the wisdom of our founding fathers to know our right to life, liberty and all other freedoms are guaranteed not by a piece of paper but by a well aimed weapon.

[Gator113]

A truly incredible lady.

[anymouse]

Assam sounds like a Muslim name.

Her eyes have an Arabic look to them, possibly at least partially of Lebanese Christian or Egyptian Christian ancestry. Regardless of her background, she was an all American hero today. And I doubt God cared when he guided her hand, mind and heart today to rid the world of one source of evil that had tried to invaded his house.

[Cindy]

Thank you for this thread Joanie-F.

[metesky]

Bravo!

[srmorton]

Well stated! John 15:13 says, "Greater love has no one than this, that he (she) lay down his life for his (her) friends." Although, thankfully, she survived the attack, she was willing to die to save her friends. What a courageous young woman! I have no doubt that her days of praying and fasting, though making her physically weak, strengthened her spiritually to acconplish the task that God had assigned to her.

[SeeSalt]

If my kids were killed by him, I go after his entire immediate family, to send a message to any teenage or early twenties loser that if he does not care about himself, he better think about his parents, siblings, significant other and his own kids.

I agree with you! Look at Jeffry Duhhemer who killed innocent people and his father who get good money from his book "inspired" from his son's cannibalism.

[IDontLikeToPayTaxes]

The media have not given Jeanne Assam the credit she is due.

She's is not a liberal lesbian welfare mom. She doesn't fit the media's profile of "hero".

[Guenevere]

Thanks joanie!
God bless this woman.

[moonman]

"Her eyes have an Arabic look to them, possibly at least partially of Lebanese Christian or Egyptian Christian ancestry. Regardless of her background, she was an all American hero today."

Agreed!

Photo on Fox News either shows a smude, shadow or an adam's apple on her neck. Regardless, it doesn't take away the 'hero' she is.

[Jeff Head]

God bless this woman for raising the alarm, for her faith in God, for her humility, and for her willingness and courage to allow God to guide her footsteps through great peril and great risk to herself in defense of her church and fellow parishners and Chrstians from a deranged killer.

Self-defense, as the founders intended and provided for through the 2nd amendment, which, in my way of thinking is nothing more than our unalienable right to self-defense, is the answer to these tragedies and countless others. Here, it proved its mettle in a dramtic way, and in the exact manner intended IMHO...a God-fearing, faithful, responsible American citizen couragously standing against murder and tyranny...because such killers are nothing but ruthless tyrants at heart, imposing their murderous will on innocents at the point of a gun or sword.

This incident, the mall in Utah, the school back in Kentucky several years ago. Each case shows that arming the people themselves who are there when these heinious acts go down, is the way to arrest and stop the bloodshed and save lives. This policy should be adopted at every mall, school, church, synagogue...and HOME in America IMHO.

I can add but one thing to your wonderful and spot on comments Joanie, and the summation you made...

The Second Amendment proved its value this weekend when a legally armed, courageous, cool-headed, and God-fearing, American citizen saved the lives of many of her countrymen.

God preserve the Second Amendment. And God bless Jeanne Assam.

This interview needs to be played over and over...it should be required reading in every civis class across this nation, and every self-defense course. Again, thank God this coragous and faithful woman was put in place there by God to do His will, preserve lives, and teach us the manner in which we, as a people, should face these dangers.

[Bigun]

Yet another well written and spot on target piece!

Thanks for making the effort joanie!

[13Sisters76]

Thank you joanie.

We may never know what will be accomplished by any that this lady saved.

Cops can’t be everywhere; it’s the nature of a force that can only be RE-active (not to mention ‘handcuffed’ by left wing mentality). It’s more than high time that we take back our neighborhoods and cities. The scum may think twice if they think they are facing a population willing to defend itself.

I preach this and live it: Arm yourselves and be ready to USE your level of force. Remember that some people only improve the society with their absence.