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In reply to the discussion: Tom Tomorrow: What We REALLY Need Is... [View all]spin
(17,493 posts)34. Jeanne Assam who had a carry permit and was acting as a volunteer security guard at a church ...
stopped a mass murderer.
2007 Colorado YWAM and New Life shootings
The 2007 Colorado YWAM and New Life shootings occurred December 9, 2007, when Matthew J. Murray attacked the Youth With A Mission training center in Arvada, Colorado, and New Life Church in Colorado Springs, Colorado. [1]
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New Life Church shooting
On Sunday, December 9, 2007, at about 1 p.m. Murray, armed with a semi-automatic rifle and two pistols, entered the foyer of the New Life Church in Colorado Springs and fatally shot two and wounded three others before himself being shot and wounded by Jeanne Assam, a former sworn Colorado police officer and a church member acting as security. Murray then took his own life.[5][6]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Colorado_YWAM_and_New_Life_shootings
The news media did report this story but emphasized the fact that Assam was a former police officer and a security guard at the church. In fact she volunteered to be an unpaid security guard and had a carry permit.
The Remaking of Jeanne Assam
It seems the mainstream media has a hard time accepting the idea that a concealed weapons carrier can stop a massacre in progress. I'm not surprised. Even though the pastor of the New Life Church explained the position of his members who carry handguns in church, the media continues to portray Jeanne Assam as a security guard. She wore no uniform. She received no pay. She worshiped there by choice. Her only duty was to God, her fellow parishioners, and to her own conscience.
http://xavierthoughts.blogspot.com/2007/12/remaking-of-jeanne-assam.html
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And as a result, he was convicted of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree.
baldguy
Jul 2012
#50
It would not really be in the service of CPL holders, if some of us started killing
AtheistCrusader
Jul 2012
#61
I wish that Holmes would have been stopped after shooting only one or two people (nt)
Nye Bevan
Jul 2012
#70
In your third link, the shooter was pursued by armed bystander AFTER he was done
yurbud
Jul 2012
#29
Jeanne Assam who had a carry permit and was acting as a volunteer security guard at a church ...
spin
Jul 2012
#34
Every time a CCW permittee shoots a gun-waving idiot at a convenience store...
krispos42
Jul 2012
#52
Ah he puts another quarter in the one armed bandit, he says "Well, maybe next time."
alfredo
Jul 2012
#41
One shooting spree WAS stopped by bystanders, the Colin Ferguson subway shooting
yurbud
Jul 2012
#20