VID: Shooter “Hated Christians” CCW Woman: “God Guided And Protected”
Ok, so it would be hard to conceal that weapon with what she’s wearing, but I liked the picture.
Heh heh, it was a woman with a concealed weapons permit who also volunteered as plain clothes security at the church. It can’t be said enough: Law abiding citizens that properly (CCW) carry concealed weapons make America safer.
The woman is a hero.
The hero is Jeanne Assam. She said, “God guided me and protected me.”
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Many people are expressing relief that a volunteer security guard used her own gun to stop a man on a shooting spree Sunday. “She probably saved over 100 lives,” the Brady Boyd, the pastor of the New Life Church in Colorado Springs, said on Monday.
The female guard, a church member dressed in plain clothes, killed the gunman after he opened fire at the mega-church. Boyd said she “rushed toward the attacker and took him down in the hallway” as he entered the building. The shooting erupted around 1 p.m., at the end of a service, when 7,000 people were either inside the New Life Church or just leaving. “He was just walking and shooting,” the Denver Post quoted one witness as saying.
The gunman, 24 year-old Matthew Murray, shot at least eight people, killing two teenage sisters, the pastor said. The girls were 16 and 18 years old. Their father, also shot, is listed in serious condition.
The gunman is believed to be the same young man who shot and killed two people earlier the same day at a missionary training center in suburban Denver. In that case, the gunman opened fire, reportedly after he was refused permission to spend the night at the missionary center.
KUSA-TV reported that the gunman was wearing a “tactical helmet and body armor.” The church’s pastor said the New Life Church “prepared in advance” for a possible attack, after hearing about the shooting at the missionary training center.
(CNS)
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Shooter was such a dumb movie, but yeah, that girl with the shotgun, HOT!
December 10th, 2007 at 11:51 amwhat kind of church has armed security guards??? we catholics had nuns..u didn’t want to mess with them,, uh uh,,no way..
December 10th, 2007 at 11:56 amOne decent citizen with a gun, once again, disproves all the pansy liberal whinging about how gun control is necessary.
The more we read about armed citizens taking out the garbage, the more the garbage will pause and reflect on just how stupid it is to carry a hi-cap 9mm into a crowded building and just start plugging people like rats at the dump. Unless, of course, you like the idea of being plugged like a rat at the dump by some heavily armed psycho that enjoys killing people in gun-free zones.
When it becomes common knowledge that over half of the people you see walking down the street are carrying, you will see the end of headlines like VA Tech. When teachers carry, no more Colombines.
December 10th, 2007 at 11:56 amThank God the Church didn’t have a “no guns allowed” policy like a certain mall in Nebraska.
Dad 3/7 - Toooo funny.
December 10th, 2007 at 12:01 pmShe must have been a good shot if he was wearing a tactical helmet and body armor.
December 10th, 2007 at 12:17 pmI used to keep my CW paperwork up to date but as more and more NO GUNS PERMITTED signs have sprung up I have let mine expire and I just pack my 45 everywhere whithout a second thought. It is stupid to let the lefty loonies decide where and when you can defend yourself and that includes the damn opera house!
December 10th, 2007 at 12:18 pmjoe,, the gals i date wear helmets and tatical body armour..and i can’t get a shot in anywhere,,
December 10th, 2007 at 12:20 pmI agree with Mike to an extent. If you are safe enough to have a conceal and carry permit you should carry where ever you see fit, with the exception of court.
December 10th, 2007 at 12:24 pmThat chick would be hotter if she knew how to hold the friggin gun, boys.
December 10th, 2007 at 12:26 pmI’ll go along with the no gun in court if the standard practice is to have an armed officer in the court at all times.
December 10th, 2007 at 12:34 pmYou know, this sounds like encouraging news and all; Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit.com always notes these stories and encourages acknowledging the wisdom in it, but, I have to say… this is still probably NOT going to play well in the media, stopped by a civilian concealed weapons permit holder or not!
Why was America and England treated as heros of WWII? Because they came well after the crime had already been committed, like a cop would. They knew the damage. Why is America being treated like a pariah in the media over Iraq (and even Afghanistan) right now? Because it was pre-emptive, the full potential and extent of the damage had not been yet known or done.
Citizens with permits will be treated as pre-emptives, where the extent of the damage is unimaginable, because you won’t ever really know the damage that could have, WOULD HAVE, happened when you stop it early. Had England, with America’s help, stopped Hitler earlier, it would have just been seen as more oppression following WWI.
Call me crazy, but I think this will ALWAYS be the case in this Western society.
December 10th, 2007 at 1:34 pmFinally got around to putting in my Rifle and Shotgun Permit. God, there are times I miss being upstate. Just walk into Walmart and buy myself a gun.
I can pretty much forget about a CCW. They’re almost impossible to get unless you’re in Law Enforcement or work for a security company.
Guiliani was bad, at least from a gun owner’s perspective, but Bloomberg’s fucking ridiculous.
I’ll still take Rudy over anyone the Dems can face him with, and I’m reasonably sure he’ll appoint strict constructionist Justices, even if he doesn’t agree with everything they’ll decide.
Here’s my criteria for who to pick in an election, or anything else, for that matter:
Who do you want to have your back in a fight?
December 10th, 2007 at 2:21 pmI’ll take Duncan Hunter on my six. No apology!
December 10th, 2007 at 3:50 pmI posted this in the previous thread, as Joe in MD suggested, but figure more people will see it in this newer thread. Most of you have already read it, but every American, hell, everyone in the world should read it.
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On Sheep, Wolves, and Sheepdogs
By LTC (RET) Dave Grossman, author of “On Killing.”
Honor never grows old, and honor rejoices the heart of age. It does so because honor is, finally, about defending those noble and worthy things that deserve defending, even if it comes at a high cost. In our time, that may mean social disapproval, public scorn, hardship, persecution, or as always,even death itself. The question remains: What is worth defending? What is worth dying for? What is worth living for? - William J. Bennett - in a lecture to the United States Naval Academy November 24, 1997
One Vietnam veteran, an old retired colonel, once said this to me:
“Most of the people in our society are sheep. They are kind, gentle, productive creatures who can only hurt one another by accident.” This is true. Remember, the murder rate is six per 100,000 per year, and the aggravated assault rate is four per 1,000 per year. What this means is that the vast majority of Americans are not inclined to hurt one another. Some estimates say that two million Americans are victims of violent crimes every year, a tragic, staggering number, perhaps an all-time record rate of violent crime. But there are almost 300 million Americans, which means that the odds of being a victim of violent crime is considerably less than one in a hundred on any given year. Furthermore, since many violent crimes are committed by repeat offenders, the actual number of violent citizens is considerably less than two million.
Thus there is a paradox, and we must grasp both ends of the situation: We may well be in the most violent times in history, but violence is still remarkably rare. This is because most citizens are kind, decent people who are not capable of hurting each other, except by accident or under extreme provocation. They are sheep.
I mean nothing negative by calling them sheep. To me it is like the pretty, blue robin’s egg. Inside it is soft and gooey but someday it will grow into something wonderful. But the egg cannot survive without its hard blue shell. Police officers, soldiers, and other warriors are like that shell, and someday the civilization they protect will grow into something wonderful.? For now, though, they need warriors to protect them from the predators.
“Then there are the wolves,” the old war veteran said, “and the wolves feed on the sheep without mercy.” Do you believe there are wolves out there who will feed on the flock without mercy? You better believe it. There are evil men in this world and they are capable of evil deeds. The moment you forget that or pretend it is not so, you become a sheep. There is no safety in denial.
“Then there are sheepdogs,” he went on, “and I’m a sheepdog. I live to protect the flock and confront the wolf.”
If you have no capacity for violence then you are a healthy productive citizen, a sheep. If you have a capacity for violence and no empathy for your fellow citizens, then you have defined an aggressive sociopath, a wolf. But what if you have a capacity for violence, and a deep love for your fellow citizens? What do you have then? A sheepdog, a warrior, someone who is walking the hero’s path. Someone who can walk into the heart of darkness, into the universal human phobia, and walk out unscathed
Let me expand on this old soldier’s excellent model of the sheep, wolves, and sheepdogs. We know that the sheep live in denial, that is what makes them sheep. They do not want to believe that there is evil in the world. They can accept the fact that fires can happen, which is why they want fire extinguishers, fire sprinklers, fire alarms and fire exits throughout their kids’ schools.
But many of them are outraged at the idea of putting an armed police officer in their kid’s school. Our children are thousands of times more likely to be killed or seriously injured by school violence than fire, but the sheep’s only response to the possibility of violence is denial. The idea of someone coming to kill or harm their child is just too hard, and so they chose the path of denial.
The sheep generally do not like the sheepdog. He looks a lot like the wolf. He has fangs and the capacity for violence. The difference, though, is that the sheepdog must not, can not and will not ever harm the sheep. Any sheep dog who intentionally harms the lowliest little lamb will be punished and removed. The world cannot work any other way, at least not in a representative democracy or a republic such as ours.
Still, the sheepdog disturbs the sheep. He is a constant reminder that there are wolves in the land. They would prefer that he didn’t tell them where to go, or give them traffic tickets, or stand at the ready in our airports in camouflage fatigues holding an M-16. The sheep would much rather have the sheepdog cash in his fangs, spray paint himself white, and go, “Baa.”
Until the wolf shows up. Then the entire flock tries desperately to hide behind one lonely sheepdog.
The students, the victims, at Columbine High School were big, tough high school students, and under ordinary circumstances they would not have had the time of day for a police officer. They were not bad kids; they just had nothing to say to a cop. When the school was under attack, however, and SWAT teams were clearing the rooms and hallways, the officers had to physically peel those clinging, sobbing kids off of them. This is how the little lambs feel about their sheepdog when the wolf is at the door.
Look at what happened after September 11, 2001 when the wolf pounded hard on the door. Remember how America, more than ever before, felt differently about their law enforcement officers and military personnel? Remember how many times you heard the word hero?
Understand that there is nothing morally superior about being a sheepdog; it is just what you choose to be. Also understand that a sheepdog is a funny critter: He is always sniffing around out on the perimeter, checking the breeze, barking at things that go bump in the night, and yearning for a righteous battle. That is, the young sheepdogs yearn for a righteous battle. The old sheepdogs are a little older and wiser, but they move to the sound of the guns when needed right along with the young ones.
Here is how the sheep and the sheepdog think differently. The sheep pretend the wolf will never come, but the sheepdog lives for that day. After the attacks on September 11, 2001, most of the sheep, that is, most citizens in America said, “Thank God I wasn’t on one of those planes.” The sheepdogs, the warriors, said, “Dear God, I wish I could have been on one of those planes. Maybe I could have made a difference.” When you are truly transformed into a warrior and have truly invested yourself into warriorhood, you want to be there. You want to be able to make a difference.
There is nothing morally superior about the sheepdog, the warrior, but he does have one real advantage. Only one. And that is that he is able to survive and thrive in an environment that destroys 98 percent of the population. There was research conducted a few years ago with individuals convicted of violent crimes. These cons were in prison for serious, predatory crimes of violence: assaults, murders and killing law enforcement officers. The vast majority said that they specifically targeted victims by body language: slumped walk, passive behavior and lack of awareness. They chose their victims like big cats do in Africa, when they select one out of the herd that is least able to protect itself.
Some people may be destined to be sheep and others might be genetically primed to be wolves or sheepdogs. But I believe that most people can choose which one they want to be, and I’m proud to say that more and more Americans are choosing to become sheepdogs.
Seven months after the attack on September 11, 2001, Todd Beamer was honored in his hometown of Cranbury, New Jersey. Todd, as you recall, was the man on Flight 93 over Pennsylvania who called on his cell phone to alert an operator from United Airlines about the hijacking. When he learned of the other three passenger planes that had been used as weapons, Todd dropped his phone and uttered the words, “Let’s roll,” which authorities believe was a signal to the other passengers to confront the terrorist hijackers. In one hour, a transformation occurred among the passengers - athletes, business people and parents. — from sheep to sheepdogs and together they fought the wolves, ultimately saving an unknown number of lives on the ground.
There is no safety for honest men except by believing all possible evil of evil men. - Edmund Burke
Here is the point I like to emphasize, especially to the thousands of police officers and soldiers I speak to each year. In nature the sheep, real sheep, are born as sheep. Sheepdogs are born that way, and so are wolves. They didn’t have a choice. But you are not a critter. As a human being, you can be whatever you want to be. It is a conscious, moral decision.
If you want to be a sheep, then you can be a sheep and that is okay, but you must understand the price you pay. When the wolf comes, you and your loved ones are going to die if there is not a sheepdog there to protect you. If you want to be a wolf, you can be one, but the sheepdogs are going to hunt you down and you will never have rest, safety, trust or love. But if you want to be a sheepdog and walk the warrior’s path, then you must make a conscious and moral decision every day to dedicate, equip and prepare yourself to thrive in that toxic, corrosive moment when the wolf comes knocking at the door.
For example, many officers carry their weapons in church.? They are well concealed in ankle holsters, shoulder holsters or inside-the-belt holsters tucked into the small of their backs.? Anytime you go to some form of religious service, there is a very good chance that a police officer in your congregation is carrying. You will never know if there is such an individual in your place of worship, until the wolf appears to massacre you and your loved ones.
I was training a group of police officers in Texas, and during the break, one officer asked his friend if he carried his weapon in church. The other cop replied, “I will never be caught without my gun in church.” I asked why he felt so strongly about this, and he told me about a cop he knew who was at a church massacre in Ft. Worth, Texas in 1999. In that incident, a mentally deranged individual came into the church and opened fire, gunning down fourteen people. He said that officer believed he could have saved every life that day if he had been carrying his gun. His own son was shot, and all he could do was throw himself on the boy’s body and wait to die. That cop looked me in the eye and said, “Do you have any idea how hard it would be to live with yourself after that?”
Some individuals would be horrified if they knew this police officer was carrying a weapon in church. They might call him paranoid and would probably scorn him. Yet these same individuals would be enraged and would call for “heads to roll” if they found out that the airbags in their cars were defective, or that the fire extinguisher and fire sprinklers in their kids’ school did not work. They can accept the fact that fires and traffic accidents can happen and that there must be safeguards against them.
Their only response to the wolf, though, is denial, and all too often their response to the sheepdog is scorn and disdain. But the sheepdog quietly asks himself, “Do you have and idea how hard it would be to live with yourself if your loved ones attacked and killed, and you had to stand there helplessly because you were unprepared for that day?”
It is denial that turns people into sheep. Sheep are psychologically destroyed by combat because their only defense is denial, which is counterproductive and destructive, resulting in fear, helplessness and horror when the wolf shows up.
Denial kills you twice. It kills you once, at your moment of truth when you are not physically prepared: you didn’t bring your gun, you didn’t train. Your only defense was wishful thinking. Hope is not a strategy. Denial kills you a second time because even if you do physically survive, you are psychologically shattered by your fear helplessness and horror at your moment of truth.
Gavin de Becker puts it like this in Fear Less, his superb post-9/11 book, which should be required reading for anyone trying to come to terms with our current world situation: “…denial can be seductive, but it has an insidious side effect. For all the peace of mind deniers think they get by saying it isn’t so, the fall they take when faced with new violence is all the more unsettling.”
Denial is a save-now-pay-later scheme, a contract written entirely in small print, for in the long run, the denying person knows the truth on some level.
And so the warrior must strive to confront denial in all aspects of his life, and prepare himself for the day when evil comes. If you are warrior who is legally authorized to carry a weapon and you step outside without that weapon, then you become a sheep, pretending that the bad man will not come today. No one can be “on” 24/7, for a lifetime. Everyone needs down time. But if you are authorized to carry a weapon, and you walk outside without it, just take a deep breath, and say this to yourself…
“Baa.”
This business of being a sheep or a sheep dog is not a yes-no dichotomy. It is not an all-or-nothing, either-or choice. It is a matter of degrees, a continuum. On one end is an abject, head-in-the-sand-sheep and on the other end is the ultimate warrior. Few people exist completely on one end or the other. Most of us live somewhere in between. Since 9-11 almost everyone in America took a step up that continuum, away from denial. The sheep took a few steps toward accepting and appreciating their warriors, and the warriors started taking their job more seriously. The degree to which you move up that continuum, away from sheephood and denial, is the degree to which you and your loved ones will survive, physically and psychologically at your moment of truth.
December 10th, 2007 at 4:22 pmA tactical helmet isn’t shit compared to one well-aimed shot between the lip and the hairline. Once those motor controls are gone, the fight ends.
Good night Irene…
December 10th, 2007 at 4:24 pm@ ticticboom
December 10th, 2007 at 5:44 pmcan you suggest where to get Dave Grossmans on “sheep, wolves and sheepdogs,” that I could fwd. to some sheep on my e-mail list.
Thanks for the post.
Bash, I couldn’t agree more, Mossberg meets Victoria’s Secret, nothing sexier than a beautiful, well equipped woman! LOL!
December 10th, 2007 at 7:47 pm@cb10:
Ask and you shall recieve. Actually, this is the original. The one I posted from another site seems a bit off now that I looked at the two.
http://www.killology.com/sheep_dog.htm
December 10th, 2007 at 7:55 pmlove the sheep story, Thanks!!
December 11th, 2007 at 4:30 amThe father of the two girls that were killed in the parking lot was a sheep. His daughters died and he was shot twice because he didn’t think it was necessary or important to be prepared. He could have been the one who had the CCW and the firearm but chose not to.
December 11th, 2007 at 8:53 amJOE:
No offense, but, of course she was a good shot. At least in TX, we have to prove our proficiency on the range to the CHL instructor. There are single shots and then double-taps at 10, 21, and 45 feet.
LADY ANGLER:
December 11th, 2007 at 11:15 amShe’s holdin it just right…it’s a sawed-off