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Posted on 12/14/2007 1:09:55 PM PST by NonZeroSum
December 14th, 2007
COLORADO SPRINGS (APUPI) As a mass memorial service was held today for the seventy-three victims of the massacre at the New Life Church, one of the largest such grim tolls in the nations' history, gun-control advocates pointed out the continuing folly of allowing civilians access to pistols and assault weapons.
"This never would have happened had Matthew Murray not been able to get his hands on those weapons, " said Sarah Brady, head of Handgun Control, Incorporated. "He had two handguns, an assault rifle, and a thousand rounds of ammunition. Seventy-three people are dead now, because the NRA continues to block reasonable gun-control measures."
With Sunday's slaughter still fresh in the minds of many, she pointed out that now was the time to end such incidents once and for all, with effective laws against both handguns and assault weapons.
The toll was horrific for the church, which lost not only many parishioners, but its senior pastor, Brady Boyd. Also killed was Jeanne Assam, one of the church's security guards. She had bravely stood up and warned the gunman as he entered the building after killing two girls in the parking lot, and pointed out the "gun-free zone" sign at the church entrance. However, she herself was unarmed, per church policy, and was shot down before Murray went on to shoot numerous others behind her.
Some have made the controversial suggestion that the death toll might have been lower had Ms. Assam been allowed to carry a firearm herself, something which, as a former police officer, she was well trained to do. In addition, she held a permit to legally carry a concealed weapon in Colorado. But the church rules, for obvious safety reasons, didn't allow weapons on the premises.
Mrs. Brady finds such suggestions dangerous and ludicrous. "What is a woman going to do with a handgun against a man with two pistols and an assault rifle?" she asked. "Adding more weapons to the mix would only have increased the carnage. What they needed was bigger letters on the sign."
[Copyright 2007 by Rand Simberg]
Oh yea?
I'll be back.
This is a very good point made by this hypothetical article.
I thought it was OUTSTANDING!!!!!
lol you mean the intelligent posts of course? Intelligent people believe in intelligent design.
As if none of us saw this coming as soon as we heard it on the news.
More effective gun control: more citizens with guns shooting enough nuts and well-publicized enough to convince the rest of them that to try something like that will result in their immediate demise.
Collegiate Marksmanship Group at UCSB. No more Virginia Techs!
I have two disadvantages when I respond to threads like this:
1) I actually read the article, and,
2) I can’t type fast enough.
Oh wait... this is is a 'gun free forum' ...HeHe...
Someone once said, “You never hear of them shooting up a police station.”
I don't know whether to laugh out loud or cry...
BTW Thank you for your service to this great nation...((;O)
No, 73 people are dead now because liberal weenies coddle criminals instead of punishing them. And because this society protects madmen instead of segregating them where they can do no harm. And because whenever some inevitable tragedy like this occurs on the fringes of a diverse population, the Left rushes to make political hay of it when they should be looking at the root causes.
We need more "gun control" like we need higher taxes.
The reasons we have so many deranged people can be traced back to the denigratioin of the culture, the denying of a higher power, and rampant PC pushed by these same "caring" people pushing for more and more gun control.
These people need a reality check, but are so far gone, they wouldn't get a blip out of a real brush with reality.
vaudine
Perhaps this is just a brush with the '4th estate'?
Actually there are many instance of less than bright criminals trying to rob gun stores, while they are open for business.
Now that doesn't exactly make the robbers the brightest bulbs in the string, since at the gun shops, and gun ranges I know of, the staff is armed.
Yep. I did a double-take myself. Glad that I didn’t leap to the conclusion I was inching towards...
Oh, this is funny. Very true, but funny.
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