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Shooting at New Life Church 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 <http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewFlash.asp?Page=/ThisHour/Archive/NTH20071210t.html>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: <http://www.nrahab.com/?cat=118>Ahab has confirmed the lady who brought down the killer was not a church employee, and was carrying her personal gun. But the <http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8TEMV100&show_article=1>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 <http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2007/dec/09/shooting-reported-new-life-church-springs/>the Rocky Mtn News describes her as "a church security officer." At 02:29 PM 12/13/07, you wrote: >I'm surprised there has been no talk about the >recent shootings on the list, be it the mall in >Oklahoma or the churches in CO. The media is >calling the shooter that stopped the BG in CO as >a "security guard." > >It's really semantics here. She was an ex LEO >(actually fired from the job I have read, but >that's here nor there) about a decade ago, and >was a non-paid volunteer at the church who has a >CCW. Thus, is she a "security officer" or a >simple CCW holder who helps out with security? >Proponents of CCW are going to claim the latter. > >The media and anti CCW types will hang on the >fact she was ex LEO (and are claiming she was >"highly trained") and a "security guard" or >"security personnel" because they loath to >actually admit a civilian with a CCW who was >there as a non paid volunteer to help guard the >church after the earlier shooting, took out a BG, >prevented many deaths, and proved armed people >make a positive difference. > >If anyone has facts that counter the above, by >all means correct me. So far, the above is what >I have gathered so far.
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