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Forget Oregon’s Gunman. Remember the Hero Who Charged Straight at Him
The Daily Beast ^ | October 2, 2015 | Michael Daly

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.................."



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To: Stand Watch Listen

Wow! What a hero! Hate to mention him in the same sentence as obama, but was Chris mentioned at Obamas gun control news conference? .....I realize the chance is nil...


21 posted on 10/02/2015 7:11:23 AM PDT by uncitizen (OUT with all RINOS!)
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To: Stand Watch Listen

Nice Reagan quote


22 posted on 10/02/2015 7:54:13 AM PDT by Kommodor (Terrorist, Journalist or Democrat? I can't tell the difference.)
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To: thirst4truth
BTTT

23 posted on 10/02/2015 11:26:09 AM PDT by Stand Watch Listen (When the going gets tough--the Low Information President Obie from Nairobi goes golfing/fundraising)
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To: ThomasMore
Obama despises all three traits.

Well, in men, anyway...

24 posted on 10/02/2015 12:54:18 PM PDT by ArGee (Some days it's just not worth hitting the "abort" button.)
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To: proud American in Canada; Alex Murphy; bkaycee; BlueDragon; boatbums; caww; CynicalBear; ...

I have a list I ping out and know some others who do....

Prayer needed ping


25 posted on 10/03/2015 5:45:24 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: Stand Watch Listen
Some madman killed 10 in Oregon the other day.

CHOICE killed about 3,300 on the same day.

Barak; I am waiting...

26 posted on 10/03/2015 8:00:27 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie

Has what sort of weapon the devil used been revealed yet?


27 posted on 10/03/2015 8:29:34 AM PDT by MHGinTN (Is it really all relative, Mister Einstein?)
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To: Stand Watch Listen

Wonderful Mr Minz.

However I am not going to forget the shooter. Seems that he has Islam ties. No I am not going to forget him.


28 posted on 10/03/2015 8:37:14 AM PDT by Chickensoup (We lose our freedoms one surrender at a time)
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To: metmom

Has it been posted what variety of weapon the devil used?


29 posted on 10/03/2015 10:44:33 AM PDT by MHGinTN (Is it really all relative, Mister Einstein?)
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To: metmom; proud American in Canada; 4woodenboats; abletruth; Accountable One; Aeronaut; AKA Elena; ...

Sorry I am so late to the ping...I’m not real sure what the status is, but prayers are never a bad thing, so prayer warriors, please lift up in prayer all who need them in this situation. God Bless you all!


30 posted on 10/06/2015 2:14:11 PM PDT by trussell (I carry because...When seconds count between life and death, the police are only minutes away)
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