Posted on 07/27/2012 3:42:57 AM PDT by marktwain
A rampage shooting at the Youth With a Mission center in Arvada, Colo., the night before had taken two lives and left a third man critically wounded. The crime scene was 70 miles from the Colorado Springs campus of the New Life Church. But the killer had escaped into the snowy night, and one member of the congregation -- former Minnesota policewoman Jeanne Assam -- had an ominous feeling he might strike again.
Acting on her instincts, Assam urged the church pastors to post volunteer guards -- some of them armed -- at Sunday services at the sprawling mega-church. And at 1 p.m. on Dec. 9, 2007, Jeanne Assam’s premonition came true.
The Arvada gunman, 24-year-old Matthew J. Murray, showed up just after the 11 a.m. worship service at New Life had ended. He began blazing away in the parking lot, killing two teenage sisters and wounding their father and another woman. Unloading two pistols and a semi-automatic rifle from his car -- along with 1,000 rounds of ammunition in a backpack -- he headed into the church’s foyer.
Hearing the gunfire in the parking lot, Assam drew her licensed pistol from its holster and headed toward the gunman . . .
A Killing Machine
After last week’s horrific shootings inside a movie house in suburban Denver, Americans did what they always do in such circumstances: We moved in two different directions at once.
Many people decried the ease with which firearms can be obtained in this country by unbalanced people with no business playing with matches, let alone high-powered rifles. Others went out and bought a gun. And some did both.
These are contradictory impulses, but they both make sense. Many ordinary Americans, unlike our polarized and linear political parties, can hold two competing ideas in their minds
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
My wife had a fashionable .380 Bersa Thunder till her kayak tipped over and lost it in the lake .
Oh, and I'm not into pink guns, not that there's anything wrong with them. The guys I shoot with would make fun of me and laugh me off the range. Additionally, I consider my gun a tool, albeit one that is currently really too large for me to carry...I just have to wear wider clothes, and not get caught "showing" at work.
Dang. I never had a saleman at my local gun shop that looked like these young ladies. I get the fat guy with a beard, dippin’ and has a 45 on his hip. ;-)
I left Pennsy to work 33 years in The People’s Republic Of New Jersey where you needed a Firearms ID card to buy a BB gun. Retired, moved residency back to PA, and have all evil looking toys and a CCW to boot!
My local gunshop is full of “good ole boys” who love their guns and sell them by the tons to locals. We are well armed. I have my weapons that I have had for years. My wife and I both have carry permits.
The first is that the lack of faith in the federal government to administer gun laws corresponds to a general decline in confidence in the government to do much of anything right.
The second reason cited by McManus is the polarization of the two political parties. Historically, about two-thirds of Democrats viewed gun control favorably. That number hasn’t changed much. But in the Republican Party, which was once divided nearly 50-50 on this issue, rank-and-file voters favor gun rights over gun control by a 3-1 margin.
That's still too many RINOs!
The first is that the lack of faith in the federal government to administer gun laws corresponds to a general decline in confidence in the government to do much of anything right.
The second reason cited by McManus is the polarization of the two political parties. Historically, about two-thirds of Democrats viewed gun control favorably. That number hasn’t changed much. But in the Republican Party, which was once divided nearly 50-50 on this issue, rank-and-file voters favor gun rights over gun control by a 3-1 margin.
That's still too many RINOs!
I know there are too few in my house.
If you find that article, ping me would you?
“The great object is that every man be armed . . . Everyone who is able may have a gun.” (Patrick Henry, in the Virginia Convention on the ratification of the Constitution.)
I believe it is in the book LONGBOW by Robert Hardy.
There is so much info in there I would have to read the entire book to find it.
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