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CNN: "Female Security Guard Hailed as Hero"... "saved 'hundreds of lives'"
www.cnn.com ^ | December 10, 2007 | CNN

Posted on 12/10/2007 10:58:54 AM PST by Luke Skyfreeper

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado (CNN) -- A Colorado Springs megachurch instituted security precautions after a shooting at a Denver area mission center earlier Sunday, saving "hundreds of lives" at the New Life Church, senior Pastor Brady Boyd said Monday.

A New Life parishioner acting as a security guard shot and killed a gunman who entered the church Sunday afternoon after he had gotten no more than 50 feet inside the building, Boyd said.

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Boyd said the female security guard was a hero in preventing further bloodshed, rushing to confront the gunman just inside the church.

"She probably saved over a hundred lives," Boyd said of the guard, whom he said is not a law enforcement officer and used her personal weapon.

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"Hundreds of lives were saved yesterday because of the plan that was put in place," said Boyd, who put the number of people on the church campus at the time as 7,000.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: armedcitizen; banglist; castledoctrine; ccw; guns; gutsygal; heroes; heroine; jeanneassam; leo; militia; newlifechurch; rkba; winner
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To: Luke Skyfreeper

Guns are TIGHT.


101 posted on 12/10/2007 11:24:30 AM PST by Douggles
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To: DrGunsforHands
Yep, skullcaps are common to the Islamic culture as well...


102 posted on 12/10/2007 11:24:47 AM PST by Virginia Ridgerunner (“We must not forget that there is a war on and our troops are in the thick of it!” --Duncan Hunter)
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To: JustaDumbBlonde
She ran TO danger of her own volition and went up against someone with body armor. How would that fall short of the criteria for heroism?

And I'll bet we find out she puts in some serious range time ... which reminds me ...

103 posted on 12/10/2007 11:24:56 AM PST by NonValueAdded (Fred Dalton Thompson for President)
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To: JustaDumbBlonde
I really don't understand this trend in this country to hail people as heroes for doing the job they were hired to do. Yes, this woman did a very good job and did save many lives, but that is why she was hired. I heard the pastor saying that the guard was there because there was alarm about the shooting near Denver.

Like many other words and phrases in our country, hero is losing some of its meaning by excessive usage

Tell that to the people that were inside that church. She was a hero.

104 posted on 12/10/2007 11:25:05 AM PST by Irish Eyes
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To: JustaDumbBlonde

If it was my ass she just saved, she’d sure be my hero!!


105 posted on 12/10/2007 11:25:30 AM PST by JZelle
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To: gracesdad
You have no idea what you’re talking about.

What did he get wrong?

106 posted on 12/10/2007 11:26:20 AM PST by papertyger (changing words quickly metastasizes into changing facts -- Ann Coulter)
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To: jdm

Is she single?

;-)


107 posted on 12/10/2007 11:26:50 AM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (Merry Christmas!)
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To: NonValueAdded

The old Greek term for “strike” (to which one is to “turn the other cheek”) is more akin to insult, slap, or other minor harm - distinct from grave physical injury.

When directed to go out on their own without Christ’s immediate physical presence, they were told to take their wallets, bags, ... and swords.


108 posted on 12/10/2007 11:26:56 AM PST by ctdonath2 (The color blue tastes like the square root of 0?)
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To: All

A bit off topic, but I bet she is not considering herself a hero, she is probably giving full credit to God.


109 posted on 12/10/2007 11:27:42 AM PST by Freedom2specul8 (Please pray for our troops.... http://anyservicemember.navy.mil/)
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To: Luke Skyfreeper
According to 9 News she was a member of the church and acted as a volunteer security guard in plainclothes. She ordinarily acted as the head pastor’s bodyguard but they beefed up security in the public areas when they heard about the shootings at the Arvada institution. Also, she does have a “law enforcement background.”
110 posted on 12/10/2007 11:28:19 AM PST by colorado tanker
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To: Travis McGee
The all-news station says he was carrying some 500 rounds of ammunition.

In mags? He musta clanked when he walked... and probably couldn't move terribly fast. My bet is that he just strode in thinking he was Mr. Terminator.

No Second Place Winner, Pal.

111 posted on 12/10/2007 11:28:28 AM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: purpleraine

She’s a hero in my book. Anybody who faces down an armed man with body armor and a rifle..with a handgun needed to perform with skill,cool nerves and a steady hand.
Give her a medal. I don’t care if she was paid or not.


112 posted on 12/10/2007 11:28:32 AM PST by Oldexpat
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To: DocH

Convincing acting job, huh?


113 posted on 12/10/2007 11:28:36 AM PST by dangus
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To: JustaDumbBlonde
By now I know you have realized your mistake since this woman was not a hired guard, but a volunteer at the church. However, even if she had been paid, and had "just been doing her job," as you state, she would still be a hero for achieving the success of preventing a huge tragedy there.

I much rather use the term "hero" for the brave, selfless people who act to save lives than on the volumes of sports figures such as the notorious O.J.was once called, and other football and basketball players have been called. They are held up to our youth as something heroic when they do NOTHING heroic at all. They practice, they play well and they are simply doing their jobs, and being paid very well to do them. They and their employers get amazingly rich because of people who idolize them, and their actions in the games they play as professional athletes are far from selfless. That is where the word "Hero" has been overused and abused - not in instances like this event where the woman put her own life on the line for the sake of protecting others -- paid or not.

114 posted on 12/10/2007 11:28:48 AM PST by CitizenM ("An excuse is worse than an lie, because an excuse is a lie hidden." Pope John Paul, II)
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To: nonsporting

See #108.


115 posted on 12/10/2007 11:29:08 AM PST by ctdonath2 (The color blue tastes like the square root of 0?)
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To: Travis McGee

One of the male victims who was shot in the left arm was interviewed on the local media. He stated “I was keeping a promise I made to myself after the Columbine shooting. That was if I were ever in a situation where a gunman is shooting women and children I would run toward the gunman and try to do something. Even if I were unarmed.”

This is exactly what he did. He and the female guard rushed the shooter. He stated the guard fired 10-12 times and when they reached the shooter he was covered with blood and sliding down the wall. He stated the shooter had four weapons and he took the shooters handgun in case it was needed further.

This man is also a hero in my book.


116 posted on 12/10/2007 11:29:20 AM PST by Balata
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To: Travis McGee

I am stunned and shocked to hear what you just said. I was much more expecting a member of The Religion of Peace.

In any event, whatever he was, it doesn’t take away from this lady’s heroism. This guy went into a packed church with a gun, body armor and 500 rounds of ammo - and she stopped him cold.


117 posted on 12/10/2007 11:29:23 AM PST by Luke Skyfreeper
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To: Travis McGee; JustaDumbBlonde

This needs to be repeated....

VOLUNTEER CIVILIAN PARISHONER...
HER OWN PERSONAL WEAPON...

Just think what would have happened had this been a gun free zone and the heroic...YES..heroic woman did not rush toward the animal.
God bless her courage.


118 posted on 12/10/2007 11:30:41 AM PST by donnab (saving liberal brains...one moron at a time.)
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To: Balata

Wow.


119 posted on 12/10/2007 11:30:52 AM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: papertyger
Why didn't the security "volunteer" TURN THE OTHER CHEEK, as we are often counseled in our faith?

For the same reason we don't sell all of our possessions and give them to the poor.

Did you sell your cloak, or do you have a purse?

120 posted on 12/10/2007 11:30:54 AM PST by nonsporting
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