Okay, ok, so that’s over the top NRA type slogan, but after the differing results of two murderous rampages this week, you have to admit that it’s at least a valid point of view. Today the latest whack job crazy went on a shooting spree in Colorado Springs, killing at least four people. Thankfully, there was a security guard there…with a gun!
Jeanne Assam, a security guard employed by the church under attack, shot the attacker dead:
"I saw him coming through the doors," she told reporters on Monday. "I took cover, and I waited for him to get closer, and I came out of cover and identified myself, and engaged him, and took him down. And that's pretty much it."
Amen!
I’m sure I’m not the only person that is completely sick of these absolute crazy people who need to take out their frustrations on the innocent.
I do not own a gun, but I’m perfectly comfortable around them. My father taught me how to shoot at a young age, and that included absolute respect for the weapon and what it can do. Even still, I’ve often revisited my feelings on gun control and wondered if maybe America would be better off without all the guns. I think perhaps the answer was once “yes,” but that now it is too late. We’d be better off without all these guns, but it is impossible to get this genie back in the bottle. There are just too many out there.
Certainly tragedies like Virginia Tech and last week’s Mall shooting would have been averted if the United States citizens had never had guns so readily available, but they did, and they do. If that’s the case, how much better (or rather, less worse) would Virginia Tech and the numerous mass shootings have been if someone with a good heart had protected the defenseless. Good for Jeanne Assam. Thank God that she was there, that she had a piston, and that this creep didn’t get away with killing more than the four people that he did.
Jeanne Assam, a security guard employed by the church under attack, shot the attacker dead:
"I saw him coming through the doors," she told reporters on Monday. "I took cover, and I waited for him to get closer, and I came out of cover and identified myself, and engaged him, and took him down. And that's pretty much it."
Amen!
I’m sure I’m not the only person that is completely sick of these absolute crazy people who need to take out their frustrations on the innocent.
I do not own a gun, but I’m perfectly comfortable around them. My father taught me how to shoot at a young age, and that included absolute respect for the weapon and what it can do. Even still, I’ve often revisited my feelings on gun control and wondered if maybe America would be better off without all the guns. I think perhaps the answer was once “yes,” but that now it is too late. We’d be better off without all these guns, but it is impossible to get this genie back in the bottle. There are just too many out there.
Certainly tragedies like Virginia Tech and last week’s Mall shooting would have been averted if the United States citizens had never had guns so readily available, but they did, and they do. If that’s the case, how much better (or rather, less worse) would Virginia Tech and the numerous mass shootings have been if someone with a good heart had protected the defenseless. Good for Jeanne Assam. Thank God that she was there, that she had a piston, and that this creep didn’t get away with killing more than the four people that he did.
