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Pictures of Today's Heroine, Jeanne Assam
Yahoo News ^ | Dec 10,2007

Posted on 12/11/2007 5:05:15 AM PST by AmericanMade1776

Jeanne Assam, the security guard who gunned down a gunman as he terrorized worshippers after the Sunday service at New Life Church, talks about the shooting at the church in Colorado Springs, Colo., during a news conference on Monday, Dec. 10, 2007. Two women died from the shooting at the church, which was one of two church shootings in Colorado on Sunday. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski


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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; armedcitizen; assam; banglist; courage; graceunderfire; heroine; newlifechurch; respect; rkba
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To: AmericanMade1776

The next time some liberal talking head starts in on conservatives not being able to deal with a “strong woman” refer them to this thread.


41 posted on 12/11/2007 5:45:13 AM PST by TexasNative2000 (Is this tagline governed by McCain-Feingold?)
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To: AmericanMade1776
Assam grew up in Sioux Falls, N.D.

Unfortunately the South Dakotans get to claim her.

42 posted on 12/11/2007 5:45:34 AM PST by GOP_Party_Animal
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To: Mohito Loe
She is the pastor’s “body guard”.

I've read a number of threads on this subject in the past couple days, and have yet to see anyone remark on this. The pastor needs a body guard? Not in any church I've ever attended or visited.

Now, I realize this is one of those 'mega' churches we hear about. But what makes them any different? Why would this pastor feel compelled to have protection?

43 posted on 12/11/2007 5:46:49 AM PST by bcsco ("The American Indians found out what happens when you don't control immigration.")
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To: AmericanMade1776

Can you imagine how many sermons next week will PLEAD LOUDLY, that parishoneers NOT carry guns into church?


44 posted on 12/11/2007 5:48:26 AM PST by G Larry (HILLARY CARE = DYING IN LINE!)
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To: Oberon

I sense she has had a hard life, or at the very least she is going through a period of examining her life, as she said she was fasting and asking God what she should do with her life. She seems great, I kind of hope the spotlight leaves her and that she finds true happiness in her spiritual search.


45 posted on 12/11/2007 5:48:59 AM PST by Williams
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To: Oberon
He was mortally offended with me for not seeing that the IMPORTANT thing was that all the police officers got home safely that day

They got home safe. The children did not. I guess that isn't important.

46 posted on 12/11/2007 5:50:02 AM PST by montag813
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To: G Larry

I would be greatly interested to hear some of the internet “chatter” Islam is saying about this turn of events.


47 posted on 12/11/2007 5:50:56 AM PST by Eye of Unk
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To: american_ranger

A Volunteer Security Guard, kind of like the first Patriots of America.


48 posted on 12/11/2007 5:53:51 AM PST by AmericanMade1776
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To: Eye of Unk

“Would a married man with young children and a loving wife been able or willing to risk his own life by challenging a person with superior firepower?”

Men and women are doing this everyday and night somewhere to give us our freedoms. For this we should be thankful.


49 posted on 12/11/2007 5:54:33 AM PST by Faith-Hope
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To: lapster

This is one of those instances that God used for good:

Romans 8:28
And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.


50 posted on 12/11/2007 5:55:57 AM PST by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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To: AmericanMade1776

She looks like a real woman. (Not the wimpy whiny lib women we’re used to.)

And I like her shirt. :D


51 posted on 12/11/2007 5:58:32 AM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue.)
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To: Eye of Unk

“It just crossed my mind that maybe because of any reasons because of the fact she was single she had more courage to walk into the face of death?”

God does not choose the equipped, God equips the chosen.


52 posted on 12/11/2007 5:58:33 AM PST by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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To: AmericanMade1776
"I give the credit to God. And I say that very humbly. God was with me and the whole time I was behind cover -- this has got to be God, because of the firepower that [the gunman] had vs. what I had," Assam said. "I did not run away and I didn't think for a minute to run away, I just knew that I was given the assignment to end this before it got too much worse. I just prayed for the Holy Spirit to guide me."

Amen to that statement! Could it be that the Holy Spirit jammed the handgun the murderer was using, or was that just coincidence? He fired three rounds at her and missed; she emptied her handgun in his direction. I saw a report on another thread that the person who retrieved his handgun reported that it was jammed.

53 posted on 12/11/2007 5:58:56 AM PST by olezip
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To: GOP_Party_Animal; CholeraJoe

Typo..sorry.


54 posted on 12/11/2007 5:59:42 AM PST by AmericanMade1776
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To: bcsco

All “mega” churches in my area have some sort of security in place, just because the crowds are so big (and the odds of incident are higher).

We have an off duty local cop that hangs around in uniform.


55 posted on 12/11/2007 5:59:43 AM PST by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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To: Faith-Hope
No wonder the anti-gun, anti-God, anti-self-defense liberal media is not reporting/under-reporting this incident.

After all, it's a simple, straightforward case of the principles, traits, history, and traditions that made, and KEEP America FREE...

GOD, GUNS, and GUTS.

56 posted on 12/11/2007 5:59:56 AM PST by DocH (RINO-rudy for BRONX Dog Catcher 2008!!!)
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To: Mohito Loe

What’s that mean? Do you have a reference?


57 posted on 12/11/2007 6:00:24 AM PST by Theo (Global warming "scientists." Pro-evolution "scientists." They're both wrong.)
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To: AmericanMade1776
I know who she reminds me of...


58 posted on 12/11/2007 6:02:27 AM PST by SlowBoat407 (Free commerce is the only just way to redistribute wealth.)
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To: AmericanMade1776
"I saw him coming through the doors," she told reporters on Monday. "I took cover, and I waited for him to get closer, and I came out of cover and identified myself, and engaged him, and took him down. And that's pretty much it."

Wasn't there an unarmed man distracting the shooter as she fired? a little credit his way perhaps? She was primarily responsible for preventing a massacre and huge cudos heaped upon her.

59 posted on 12/11/2007 6:03:36 AM PST by existtoexcel
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To: Lloyd227

My husband likes short hair, generally. I sacrificed - after the wedding - and chopped off my hair because he seems conditioned by all the women in his family to like short. But, while he “likes it” with me, I think he sees the folly of his ways in how my hair behaves. After the baby, I intend to start growing it again.


60 posted on 12/11/2007 6:07:01 AM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue.)
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