Posted on 12/09/2007 12:49:26 PM PST by aomagrat
Edited on 12/09/2007 12:59:09 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
Hate to break it to you, but there are Christians of Arab descent in churches around the country. We have Syrian Christians at ours, grandfather fought in WWII as U.S. pilot, great-grandfather founded churches from our denomination in Syria.
We need to distinguish “Arabic” from Muslim. They are not always one and the same.
You can tell she was a cop previously. She uses cop lingo.
Yes...an article stated that she has experience in law enforcement.
I was thinking she looks Lebanese-American to me. They are usually Christians.
Yeah, but you know "those kind" come in all shapes and sizes. < /butthead freeper>
Actually police aren't sure if she shot him or if he shot himself.
Assam, a former police officer, says she was inside the church when she heard gunfire from the parking lot.
http://www.9news.com/news/article.aspx?storyid=82536
http://www.in-forum.com/ap/index.cfm?page=view&id=D8TET9UG1
Colo. church gunman had been kicked out
By JUDITH KOHLER Associated Press Writer
The Associated Press - Monday, December 10, 2007
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.
The gunman believed to have killed four people at a megachurch and a missionary training school had been thrown out of the school a few years ago and had been sending it hate mail, police said in court papers Monday.
She looks like she could be Arab to me. Although she doesn't look like a natural blonde to me, there are more blonde Arabs than you might think, especially among Christian Arabs.
You’re preaching to the choir as far as I’m concerned.
Hubba-hubba! A very attractive all-American gal!!
Which would you prefer?
Can you imagine, he was stewing over it for three years. I hate it when people bust a mainspring, and let a rejection dominate their lives. He obviously had “issues”, which is probably why he got kicked out. How do you get kicked out of missionary training school, for crying out loud? For having something obviously wrong with you, I would imagine.
According to an eye witness VietNam vet, there ands, if’s, or buts: SHE KILLED him.
Vet lauds female guard who felled gunman
By Kieran Nicholson
The Denver Post
Article Last Updated: 12/10/2007 04:32:06 PM MST
Authorities say 18-year-old Stephanie Works and 16-year-old Rachael Works died from their injuries after a gunman opened fire outside New Life Church on Sunday.
Larry Bourbonnais, a combat-tested Vietnam veteran, said it was the bravest thing he’s ever seen.
Bourbonnais, who was among those shot by a gunman Sunday at New Life Church, watched as a security guard, a woman later identified as Jeanne Assam, calmly returned fire and killed the shooter.
http://www.denverpost.com/olympics/ci_7683781
Like I said, I’ve taken SSRI’s before, and they both helped, although it took forever to come off the Paxil, and I didn’t like some of the side effects. Lexapro is totally awesome, BTW.
WORSENING DEPRESSION AND SUICIDALITY IN PATIENTS BEING TREATED WITH ANTIDEPRESSANT MEDICATIONSHave you read this ?
That article goes on to state basically exactly that....
The truth, no matter what it is.
Here’s your truth, disappointed as you likely will be:
Bourbonnais yelled at the gunman to draw his attention, he said.
“First, I called him ‘Coward’ then I called him ‘S-—head’ “ Bourbonnais said. “I probably shouldn’t have been saying that in church.”
That’s when the shooter pointed one of his guns at Bourbonnais and fired, he said.
Bourbonnais ducked behind a hollow, decorative pillar and was hit in the arm by a bullet and fragments of the pillar.
At about that moment, Assam, 42, turned a corner with a drawn handgun, walked toward the gunman and yelled “Surrender!” Bourbonnais said.
The gunman pointed a handgun at Assam and fired three shots, Bourbonnais said. She returned fire and just kept walking toward the gunman pressing off round after round.
After the gunman went down, Bourbonnais asked the Assam, a volunteer security guard with the church, how she remained so calm and focused.
Bourbonnais said she replied:
“I was asking the Holy Spirit to guide me the entire time.”
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