Chris Mintz, who was shot while rushing a killer on his son’s sixth birthday
Posted on 10/02/2015 3:31:06 AM PDT by Stand Watch Listen
No amount of murder seems likely to result in gun control any time soon. So let’s do what we can to stop the lunacy—by reserving the limelight for the vet who rushed Thursday’s shooter.Forget the 26-year-old zero who murdered 10 innocents at Umpqua Community College on Thursday morning.
The Chris to remember is 30-year-old Chris Mintz, the student and Army vet who was shot at least five times while charging straight at the gunman in an effort to save others.
Mintz did so on the sixth birthday of his son, Tyrik.
“It’s my son’s birthday, it’s my son’s birthday,” he was heard to say as he lay wounded.
When word of Mintz’s heroism reached his kin in his native North Carolina, his cousin Derek Bourgeois was hardly surprised.
“It sounds like something he would do,” Bourgeois said.
Bourgeois was somewhat amazed that a guy who survived a combat deployment without serious injury had come so close to being killed in a small Oregon town not unlike the one in North Carolina where they grew up together.................."
Chris Mintz, who was shot while rushing a killer on his son’s sixth birthday
50 posted on 10/2/2015 6:28:42 AM by csvset ( Illegitimi non carborundum)
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God Bless Chris Mintz.
THIS is what a hero is to me.
Yes I quite agree...though the MSM will 'direct' their narrative to focus on the killer for what ever way it would disparage conservatives, Christians.
God Bless Chris Mintz.
He certainly is part of the foundation of this county
He needs our prayers... Lord, please let him make it through surgery and makes a full recovery.
Who has the prayer ping list?
Thought you might be interested in this.
Just like the heroes in France; another patriotic American stepping up to the plate.
I hope he makes it.
I’ve never seen those... that drawing is amazing. Thank you for posting this thread.
I read that one of those heroes who stopped the train terrorist is a student at this college!
For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them.”
Matthew 18:20
“Be still, and know that I am God;
Psalm 46:10I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. 2 My help cometh from the Lord, which made heaven and earth.
Psalm 121:1(Jesus) bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness -- by whose stripes you were healed.
1Pet 2:24your light shall break forth like the morning, your healing shall spring forth speedily, and your righteousness shall go before you; the glory of the Lord shall be your rear guard.
Isa 58:820 “My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, 21 that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. 22 I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one— 23 I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.
24 “Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, and to see my glory, the glory you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world.
25 “Righteous Father, though the world does not know you, I know you, and they know that you have sent me. 26 I have made you[e] known to them, and will continue to make you known in order that the love you have for me may be in them and that I myself may be in them.”
John 17:20-26Loving Father, we..FRiends, as praying intercessors for Chris Mintz, entrust this courageous man to your care this day; guide with wisdom and skill the minds and hands of the medical people who minister in your Name, and grant that every cause of illness be removed. Make skilled the work of the medical personnel and that of his team for it is unto their knowledge and skill that we, as intercessors for this young man, give him for healing. That he may be restored to soundness of health and learn to live in more perfect harmony with you and with those around Him.Jesus Christ, our Savior and Lord, grant the Chris Mintz the courageous, humble acceptance of the treatments which awaits him, and let this be the relief and cure which he and his family and FRiends seek. I pray you, Lord, that these medical services be without complications and that his total recovery will be speedy and complete.
Heavenly Father, You know every fiber of our being and have willed that we were born. I beseech You, Lord, to guide the minds and hands of those who will treat this man so that he may be restored to health and well-being. Help us, Lord, to pray with all my heart and allow our burden of concern and anxiety and that of this man's family to be lifted up with the knowledge that You are with them now and always. And Lord, when any needed medical surgeries are completed, take him and his family by your loving hand and guide them towards a life of thanksgiving and peace.
Lord of all… this man is suffering, his family and FRiends are suffering, we ask to do what is right, good and best for them. As it fits your plan, heal him and mend his body and lovingly grant him days of better health and strength. As the family waits your grace and blessing please grant them an extra measure of patience, endurance and perseverance. Lord we know You are able to heal. Grant Chris Mintz and his family the wisdom to understand Your timing.
Let it be done in
“There are no great men. Just great challenges which ordinary men,out of necessity, are forced by circumstance to meet.”
Admiral William (Bull) Frederick Halsey Jr.
Thank God we still have such “ordinary men!”
My prayers are up for you sir.
“Does Obama plan on inviting him to the White House?”
Sarcasm aside, you gotta be kidding me...he’s white, he’s military, he’s got balls. Obama despises all three traits. However, if it makes a good photo op, Obama will allow it.
I read that one of those heroes who stopped the train terrorist is a student at this college!
Yes he was not presently attending the college...currently on Dancing With The Stars.Oregon Shooting: ‘DWTS’ Hero Alex Skarlatos Crushed After Massacre At His College
So scary! Terror train hero Alek Skarlatos was forced to bolt out of his ‘DWTS’ rehearsals on Oct. 1 when he received a call about the tragic shooting at Umpqua Community College — his hometown school!This is just so terrifying. Dancing With The Stars contestant Alek Skarlatos, 22, was in the middle of rehearsals with his partner Lindsay Arnold when he reportedly received a phone call informing him of the tragic shooting that took place at Umpqua Community College — the school he is currently enrolled in. How devastating!
The massacre at the Oregon community college was a tragic affair for all, but it truly hit home for Alek, who is currently pursuing a career in law enforcement at the school. Upon hearing the gut-wrenching news, the Army National Guardsman reportedly bolted from his DWTS rehearsal, as he attempted to make calls back home to ensure his friends were safe, TMZ reports. Shortly after leaving the studio, Alek took to Twitter to ask for his fans’ support writing, “Everyone send prayers out to ucc.”
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Amen.
I hope that even if he invites him he turns it down.
I will pray for him and the others and when he recovers, I will try to meet him. I live and work in Roseburg, OR most of the people on the news last night I knew, super small town. Still reading about all of this, I don’t think the perp was from Roseburg?
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