Some Real Gun Control
Its when you can aim steadily:
Jeanne Assam appeared before the news media for the first time Monday and said she “did not think for a minute to run away” when a gunman entered the New Life Church in Colorado Springs and started shooting.
There was applause as Assam spoke to reporters and TV cameras saying, “God guided me and protected me.”
New Life’s Senior Pastor Brady Boyd called Assam “a real hero” because Murray “had enough ammunition on him to cause a lot of damage.”
When asked by a reporter if she felt like a hero, Assam said, “I wasn’t just going to wait for him to do further damage.”
“I give credit to God,” she said.
Had there been an armed teacher at Columbine, there might have been less dead people. Had there been armed students at Virginia Tech, there might have been less dead people. And so on - if honest citizens are armed, know how to use their weapons, and keep strong their faith, they will prevent all manner of outrages from occuring or, if they do happen, they will greatly limit the scope of the evil. It is a foolish cowardice which ever said that the way to handle gun crime is to prohibit the citizens from carrying weapons. This tragic incident in Colorado may have one good result - it buries forever the concept that only the police should have guns.
46 comments December 11th, 2007
