That's what Col. in front of someone's name means. Using Col. at the beginning of a sentence to mean "Coloradan" would be a usage they just made up.
I don't know where the Post got that bit of information. Google didn't turn up any other mention of a service record, and she looks awfully young to have retired as a colonel. Maybe she's a reservist. One Web site tracking citizen complaints against police lists complaints against an officer named Jeanne Assam from 1993 to 1997 -- the only one sustained was for "derogatory language." Don't know if that's the same lady.
Can't report that an AVERAGE LAW-ABIDING CITIZEN accomplished what she did, now can we?
She's certainly anything but average.
That's why I made my point that it LOOKS like they want the public to believe that she was acting in an official capacity of some sort - NOT just an average citizen.
As far as "average" goes...
She's certainly anything but average.
I'd have done the same thing, as would have many law-abiding gun owners with CCW.
While there are many such instances of "average" citizens rising to the occasion in an emergency situation, we don't hear much about it.
The reason?
When guns are used lawfully to thwart an attack, and this is done by average CITIZENS (not police officers or military, etc.) the events are either NOT reported, UNDER reported, or twisted to meet the liberal medias anti-gun agenda.
She looks kinda young to be a colonel of anything, especially a police agency or a military reserve unit. Maybe she looks younger than she is, but I think the Post got that wrong.