Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: Weapons common on Oregon college campus despite 'gun-free zone' [View all]jimmy the one
(2,717 posts)beevul: There isn't much there to rebut.
Translation: Egads, better stop digging the beevul hole & blow smoke.
There was plenty for you to rebut, you just couldn't.
beevul: You're leaning now, on evidence that she considered herself a police officer at the time even though she wasn't? That's pretty fuckin thin even for you, james.
Except I'm not, I posted the snopes report which said that; in fact I was suspect since other reports have her as a former cop (which still makes her trained & experienced in gun & crime handling). I think she might be conflating security guard and police officer, not without reason imo.
snopes: Jeanne Assam maintained to us that she was still a member of the police force at the time of the church shooting and that was the one who killed Murray:
Jeanne Assam HERSELF debunks beevul's argument, by depicting herself not as a civilian with a gun at the church, but as a 'police officer' on the security team that day, forewarned about the potential shooting continuance:
Jeanne assam: "This message is regarding a post about me. It has a picture of me and words to the effect that I was just some random woman at New Life church when a gunman entered. The fact is that I am and was a police officer at the time of the shooting. I was part of the volunteer security team that day at the church."
Does Jeanne assam qualify as simply an armed civilian with a gun suddenly stopping a mass shooting?
SNOPES FACT CHECK: Jeanne Assam wasnt quite a random churchgoer who just happened to show up at the service fortuitously carrying a weapon that day, however: she was a former police officer and volunteer church security guard who was aware of the earlier attack at YAM center, had suggested that the New Life Church add extra security, and was armed as part of the churchs security team that day for that very reason.
Assam worked as a police officer in downtown Minneapolis during the 1990s and is licensed to carry a weapon. Assam was the one who suggested the church beef up its security Sunday following the Arvada shooting, which it did.