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Colorado Church Shooter Stopped by License Holder PDF Print E-mail
Written by Mike Kinsey   
Tuesday, 11 December 2007

It is being reported that the Colorado Church Shooting that occurred this week was prevented from being a large-scale massacre by an average woman with a Concealed Handgun License that volunteered to be armed during services. While several media sources are mentioning the hero’s size and gender, not very many are including the important fact that she was armed with only her license and personal handgun.

However, if you look hard enough, you can find some honest reporters that found that fact interesting.
Colorado Shooting Highlights Churches' New Emphasis on Security

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — When a black-clad gunman walked into New Life Church on Sunday and started shooting, he was met with the church's first line of defense: a congregant with a concealed weapons permit and a law enforcement background.

The woman, an armed volunteer, shot and killed the gunman. New Life's pastor credited her with saving 100 lives.

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“…we had people undercover in the congregation who were armed," Dodd [of Colorado Springs, a former New Life Church staff member] said. "It was a big church at the time, it was Christian, and some people really hate that stuff.”

"Not only do we have military and ex-military all over, we have this sort of frontier mentality. People around here are serious about protecting their own."

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"It's something you just have to do today," said Shook, whose congregation draws 15,600 people per weekend. "We want everyone to feel safe. At the same time, we want to be open and accepting of everyone. An incident like this one in Colorado Springs just reinforces what the church is — we have to be a light in a dark world."


From The Rocky Mountain News:
Pastor tells of horrific day

The guard, a member of the New Life Church who provides security as a volunteer, was called a hero by church officials today.

"She's the hero," Senior Pastor Brady Boyd said. "She saved 100 lives yesterday."

Michael Ware, pastor of Victory Church in Westminster and a New Life overseer, said the security guard is a small woman, "110 pounds dripping wet."

Relating the account he had been told, Ware said the woman ordered Matthew Murray to drop his weapon and they exchanged shots. The attacker shot at the guard, missed, and kept walking into the church, Ware said. The woman fired again, taking down the gunman.

Unfortunately, Ohio churches are de facto “Gun Free Zones”. Unless special permission was given, this Colorado hero with a Concealed Handgun License could not have “saved 100 lives” in Ohio.

Please join me in contacting every outlet you can think of with this information and the call for Ohio to remove its provision in the law for ludicrous “Gun Free Zones" that only guarantee a would-be mass killer that he will have the only gun. Recent events have shown us that these supposed “Gun Free Zones” attract massacres. They do not prevent them.

We have a responsibility to flood every newspaper editor, radio station, TV station, and most importantly, your representatives in Columbus with emails and phone calls calling for an immediate end to dangerous “Gun Free Zones” in Ohio given this heroic woman's actions that preserved countless lives.