Yes, this lady did very well. So well that even the rabidly anti-gun media cannot smear her.
Well done!
According to what I've read, this guy had a rifle, was wearing a ballistic vest and tactical helmet, and his pockets were BULGING with tons of ammunition.
And she "rushed toward him and took him down in the hallway as he entered the church," where 7000 people were present.
FABULOUS job by this FEMALE ARMED CIVILIAN, credited by the pastor with probably saving over a hundred lives.
Very inspiring—in more ways than one.
Yes, this lady did very well. So well that even the rabidly anti-gun media cannot smear her.
Well done!
God, I love a woman with a gun who is not afraid to use it and blow the perp away. Way to go!!!
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 in Colorado Springs, watched as a security guard, a woman who has not yet been named, calmly returned fire and killed the shooter.
"She just started walking toward the gunman firing the whole way," said Bourbonnais, who was shot in the arm. "She was just yelling 'Surrender,' walking and shooting the whole time."
Bourbonnais, 59, had just finished up a hamburger in the cafeteria on the sprawling church campus when he heard gunfire, he recalled.
Bourbonnais headed in the direction of the shots as frightened people ran past him looking to escape to safety.
"Where's the shooter? Where's the shooter?" Bourbonnais kept yelling, he recalled.
Near an entryway in the church, Bourbonnais came upon the gunman and an armed male church security guard who was there with his gun drawn but not firing, he said.
Bourbonnais said he pleaded with the armed guard to give him his weapon.
"Give me your handgun. I've been in combat, and I'm going to take this guy out," Bourbonnais recalled telling the guard. "He kept yelling, 'Get behind me! Get behind me!' He wouldn't hand me his weapon, but he wouldn't do anything."
There was an additional armed security guard there, another man, who also didn't fire, Bourbonnais said.
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, a female guard with a drawn handgun turned a corner and walked toward the gunman and yelled "Surrender!" Bourbonnais said.
The gunman pointed a handgun at the woman and fired three shots, Bourbonnais said. She returned fire and just kept walking toward the gunman pressing off round after round.
The female guard fired off about a dozen shots.
After the gunman went down, Bourbonnais asked the woman, who has only been identified as 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."
Kieran Nicholson: 303-954-1822 or knicholson@denverpost.com
Okay, what can I say? Girls rock! Especially, gun-toting girls.
What struck me was, she took a center of mass shot, was immediately aware that it didn’t take, and followed up with appropriate extra lead injections.
Sounds to me like a textbook Mozambique drill.
That my friends, is one cool customer under fire.
I’d love to know what handgun she was using and the caliber.
I’m sure others have posted this (I just don’t have enough time before work to run through the entire thread) - but as a simple reminder, please say a prayer for the ‘security guard,’ because she did not wake up Sunday morning hoping to shoot anyone, and (right now) it probably looks (to her) like her worst nightmare...
CCW bump! ;-)
Wait for the MSM to try to find some “skeletons” in her past and use that against her to pull her down......
God bless the Second Amendment.
I'd share a foxhole with her...and I haven't even seen her picture.
5.56mm
Golly! Sure she’s not a Marine?
“FABULOUS job by this FEMALE ARMED CIVILIAN, credited by the pastor with probably saving over a hundred lives.”
I agree.
We are under siege. We have been for some time by the crimina...’scuse me...”VICTIMS”of society. Time to call out the militia. We citizens should be armed and it should be our prime directive to make this a polite society.
This sounds like a joke, but I AIN’T kiddin’.
The DBM has sent out the templay it is a FEMALE guard. A FEMALE with a gun.
Not a woman.
Not even a citizen.
They keep trying to spin this as a licensed guard with a gun who is FEMALE.
If these had been joe blow security guard, CNN would be demanding an indictment.
CNN always spin to the left.
Well, she IS pretty sexy-looking, if I do say so myself....