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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A “hero” is someone who goes way beyond their chosen/assigned duties, at great personal cost above any risk inherent in the job.
Hmmm...and the police have not released the shooter's identity for some reason. Maybe I'm paranoid, but this suspiciously sounds like a Religion of Peace incident.
If the gunman had an automatic weapon and there were thousands at the church, it’s not hard to extrapolate “hundreds” being spared.
Or those macho, posturing, SWAT types in Blacksburg, VA eight months ago...
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“The alleged gunman in the shootings at New Life Church in Colorado Springs, Colorado, is 23-year-old Matthew Murray, CNN confirms.”
Is this the same shooting that four missionaries were killed a few days ago? Or is this like the third church shooting in the last week?
Okay, then there are no heros in Iraq. I appreciate the update.
I guess I’ll just have to be the only one objecting to this definition of a hero.
This seems to be a disturbing trend among the whack-job class.
Making the FN Five-seveN increasingly more attractive.
Now, this is the kind of woman who should be running for POTUS, not “anti-saint Hillary of perpetual victimhood”.
Of note: GA forbids carry in churches.
Many "visitors" will think twice about attending this church.
Why didn't the security "volunteer" TURN THE OTHER CHEEK, as we are often counseled in our faith?
A hero is someone who selflessly performs an unpleasant task without regard to their own well being because of their concern for the welfare of strangers.
Their training and their job are irrelevant to the definition.
Soldiers in Iraq are heros. Policeman are heros. Firemen are heros. The passengers on flight 93 were heros. This woman is a hero.
This is not a watered-down definition. Under my definition, parents are not heros (the concern is for non-strangers). Mercenaries and bounty-hunters are not heros (their concern is payment of a large reward).
So I disagree that use of the term “hero” is inappropriate in this case.
Thanks
“Like many other words and phrases in our country, hero is losing some of its meaning by excessive usage.”
Hero is getting diluted but she is a hero. She coulda run the other way and called police. Heck the police in Columbine didn’t even take as much action as she did.
You can do your job and be a hero. BTW, she was a volunteer and so technically it wasn’t even a job.
Sounds like the Founding Fathers had it right again.
Eloquently spoken.
If he's not a rabbi, he's like a member of the ROP.
I will also, and God Bless this brave woman!
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