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From: LindyBill12/10/2007 9:47:38 PM
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Shooting at New Life Church
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Posted by David Hardy · 10 December 2007 10:52 AM

A comment on a previous thread noted that the person whose shots stopped the mass killer at New Life Church was actually a church member with a CCW permit, not a hired guard, and that the media is spinning the story so as to make it appear she was the latter. I did a bit of checking, and that appears to be the case.

This story from CNS news reports:

"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."

UPDATE: Ahab has confirmed the lady who brought down the killer was not a church employee, and was carrying her personal gun.

But the AP coverage describes her as "a member of the church's armed security staff" and "the security guard." Since it quotes the pastor much the same way as the CNS story does, it sounds like a report on the same interview or conference. And the Rocky Mtn News describes her as "a church security officer."

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I have to contrast the actions of the unnamed woman with a gun and Ms Gingrich who saw the shooter in the parking lot fire on a van and was only able to cower in her car and fumble with the ignition key. The late Colonel Cooper said once that "an unarmed man can only flee from evil, and one does not vanquish evil by fleeing from it." That goes for unarmed and armed women, too

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