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The woman that killed the Colorado spree-killer was a “security guard” in the same sense that I’m a “news reporter”.  She - former Minneapolis cop Jeanne Assam - is a citizen with a standard Colorado carry permit.  She and other parishioners volunteered to watch over the church in the wake of news of an earlier shooting.

David Hardy notes:

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… Ahab has confirmed the lady who brought down the killer was not a church employee, and was carrying her personal gun.

The media - nationwide and locally - seems to be making an effort to make Assam look like an “official” security guard rather than an armed citizen:

But the 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 the Rocky Mtn News describes her as “a church security officer.”

They want to see a big herd out there.

This is a huge setback to the anti-carry movement.

Crossposted at Shot in the Dark, go there to comment