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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In fairness, for 24 hours, he was a muslim on Free Republic.
Well....your entitled to your opinion....but to me, this woman deserves special attention....
Your buddy is wise.
As far as CNN not being shy about reporting this story, that easy: A) A woman saved the day; B) She was a security guard -- hired to protect the church.
It it were a male member of the congregation with a CCW permit who killed the perp CNN wouldn't be so enthusiastic, to put it mildly.
Add to that the fact that she used her personal weapon -- it is not referred to as a *service revolver* or such that police officers/hired security have their weapons named.
Ah, I see she was a volunteer. Great job regardless.
That being said, have you ever considered the possibilities now that backpacks have become damn near ubiquitous?
True enough, as are day planners and laptop computer bags. But backpacks, even fanny packs aren't real common at church services, at least not here in my neck of the woods.
What does work pretty well for me, when something more than *just* what can be worn needs to be close at hand. is the little olive vinyl surplus bag that can double as either a bookbag, or handy tote, and from even a slight distance resembles a designer purse or carryall. But it's actually a Swiss Army gas mask bag, and is a double for the second one in my truck, which contains, among other things, a gas mask. And, in one of its outside pouches, six more loaded M1911 magazines for my M1911 or Commander. Other novelties reside in an under-seat toolbox.
I remember watching those heavily armed Columbine cowards on live television. This brave woman has the right idea: run toward the gunfire, be ready to kill.
Sucks, doesn't it? I hate having to think like that on Shabbat.
There are many who think they do with some regularity.
The "Security Guard" title is just media spin to avoid the calling her an "Armed Citizen."
More important, where did she hit him and how many bullets hit him in vital spots.
That may be the type of carry rig that I need.
“Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger, but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.” - Sir Walter Scott.
Likewise, courage is not the lack of fear - it is action in spite of fear. Paraphrasing Sam in Once An Eagle. Great book.
Colonel, USAFR
Just heard on Fox...
Her first shot(s) took him down but did not kill him. As she was covering him he started to handle a grenade. She said something like "Don't do it dude." He ignored her. She blew him away.
rotflmao, I can't imagine why. ;-)
Well said...Thanks!
Thanks I just spit my wine over the keyboard,LOL
Very inspiring—in more ways than one.
LOL, have you got it figure out yet?
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