[whataretheysaying] Mary Madigan: The Colorado New Life Church shooting

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Posted by Mary Madigan:
The Colorado New Life Church shooting
http://whataretheysaying.powerblogs.com/posts/1197393727.shtml


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   Jeanne Assam

   Via [1]Instapundit:

     The "security guard" who stopped the shooter, [Jeanne Assam] was
     actually a volunteer parishioner who used her own gun, not a
     rent-a-cop. Much more from [2]David Hardy, who notes that press
     coverage tends to obscure this point..

   [3]Gina Cobb has a report. * According to Vietnam veteran [4]Larry
   Bourbonnais, Assam's actions were the bravest thing he's ever seen

     Bourbonnais, who was among those shot by a gunman Sunday at New
     Life Church, watched as a security guard, a woman later identified
     as Jeanne Assam, calmly returned fire and killed the shooter.

     "She just started walking toward the gunman firing the whole way,"
     said Bourbonnais, who was shot in the arm. "She was just yelling
     'Surrender,' walking and shooting the whole time."

     Bourbonnais, 59, had just finished up a hamburger in the cafeteria
     on the sprawling church campus when he heard gunfire, he recalled.

     He headed in the direction of the shots as frightened people ran
     past him looking to escape to safety.

     "Where's the shooter? Where's the shooter?" Bourbonnais kept
     yelling, he recalled. Near an entryway in the church, Bourbonnais
     came upon the gunman and an armed male church security guard who
     was there with his gun drawn but not firing, he said.

     Bourbonnais said he pleaded with the armed guard to give him his
     weapon.

     "Give me your handgun. I've been in combat, and I'm going to take
     this guy out," Bourbonnais recalled telling the guard. "He kept
     yelling, 'Get behind me! Get behind me!' He wouldn't hand me his
     weapon, but he wouldn't do anything."

     There was an additional armed security guard there, another man,
     who also didn't fire, Bourbonnais said.

     Bourbonnais yelled at the gunman to draw his attention, he said.

     "First, I called him 'Coward' then I called him 'S---head' "
     Bourbonnais said. "I probably shouldn't have been saying that in
     church."

   * Link thanks to Fausta, from her post [5]Jeanne Assam and the case
   for CCL

References

   1. http://instapundit.com/archives2/012740.php
   2. http://armsandthelaw.com/archives/2007/12/shooting_at_new_1.php
   3. http://ginacobb.typepad.com/gina_cobb/2007/12/security-guard.html
   4. http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_7683781
   5. http://faustasblog.com/2007/12/jeanne-assam-and-case-for-ccl.html