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Power Line's Hinderaker: Schools Should Be More Like Biker Bars

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Interesting Times12/15/2012 6:43:32 pm PST

re: #14 goddamnedfrank

In a prior thread, you posted a link to this story:

2007 Colorado YWAM and New Life shootings

While on the surface, it appears to be a vindication of the “if they were armed, they could have defended themselves” line of thinking, there’s one detail I think bears mentioning:

On Sunday, December 9, 2007, at about 1 p.m. Murray, armed with a semi-automatic rifle and two pistols, entered the foyer of the New Life Church in Colorado Springs and fatally shot two and wounded three others before himself being shot and wounded by Jeanne Assam, a former sworn Minneapolis police officer and a church member acting as security. Murray then took his own life.

This wasn’t some macho “yee-haw” civilian wannabe-cop doing the defensive shooting, but an actual ex-law enforcement officer with (one presumes) the necessary training for using firearms in a situation such as this. Ergo, I don’t think this case can serve as automatic justification for CCA and “arm all the things!” arguments (not that you made those, but you can be certain others will, all the while waving this case in the air like their team colors)