You may be listening to conservative outlets, or perhaps you heard only early reports of her actions. But, since this morning, more and more stories are surfacing that are aimed a degrading or diminishing her heroism.
The media are reporting now that Murray supposedly committed suicide. Yet that report defies all rational logic.
Murray was a man who has been quoted as 'hating Christians', who entered a church armed to the teeth, presumably in order to take out as many believers as possible. He was confronted by a armed, determined woman, who shot and hit him multiple times, and he still had the ammo, and the ability, to return fire ... and yet turned his weapon on himself. A media-created, agenda-driven fairy tale, if I ever heard one.
As for our hero having been fired from the Minneapolis police department for lying about the fact that she had sworn at a bus driver while in the process of handling an incident on a city bus ... the Minneapolis P.D. appears to follow the kind of politically correct dictates that handcuff their officers and allow criminals to call the shots. Thank God the pastor at New Life Church doesn't share their law enforcement philosophy.
Let the mainstream media dig up, or fabricate, or magnify all out of proportion, all the 'dirt' they like on this woman. To rational, informed Americans, such tactics simply serve to demean their credibility yet again. If it weren't for the fact that they are still capable of swaying the uninformed American couch potatoes among us, their single-minded rantings would be laughable.
~ joanie
I have read a cross-section of coverage via Google News. How the stories are "aimed" is a judgment call, and my judgment differs from yours. I don't see any animosity toward Ms. Amman nor any sympathy for Mr. Murray. Overall impression: Amman was an imperfect person (as are we all) who did a perfect thing when her skill and experience and education all met. Murray met her at the corner of Crazy Street and Stupid Drive.
The media are reporting now that Murray supposedly committed suicide. Yet that report defies all rational logic.
Precisely how? Suicide is the usual endgame for spree killers. The North Hollywood bank robbers had a plan to take themselves out rather than face capture. One died by his own hand, the other at the hand of the LAPD.
Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris planned to die. The Virginia Tech shooter suicided. What you're describing as an anomaly is, in point of fact, the norm. The spree killers who don't kill themselves run out the door and force the police to kill them. Suicide by cop.