Confederate Sharpshooter

Read carefully, and try to figure out what they left out.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090214/ap_on_re_us/guns_in_church_1
That wasn’t too hard, was it? We gunnies figured it out before clicking the link, in all likelihood. If you read the story and it did not jump out at you, here is what Paul Harvey would call “The REST of the Story…”
There was no mention anywhere of an armed individual stopping a person bent on mass murder anywhere in the story. They’d like for you to believe such things ‘just don’t happen in real life.’ They do, however, quote a pastor who sees things the way they want the story slanted: "I believe it would disturb the sanctity and tranquility of church" said Pastor John Phillips, a bill opponent who was shot twice in the back as he finished a service 23 years ago. If a church opts out, "Do you want ushers to stop you at the door and frisk you?"
Well, Pastor John, if you aren’t going to let your law abiding, honest, church going congregation decide on how best to provide self defense in these dangerous times, you darn well better have somebody frisking people at the door. In fact, you’d better get a metal detector and a few goons to make the bad guys think twice before going hunting in a ‘disarmed victim zone.’ You know, like those really nice people that make you take off your shoes before you can fly on the plane, and the beefy guy in the Kevlar vest at the courthouse that makes you put your keys in the basket before going into the courtroom- and will send you back to your car if you forgot and brought in a swiss army knife with a 1” blade.

I wonder why the AP writer didn’t quote this guy?
"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. The female guard, a church member dressed in plain clothes, killed the gunman after he opened fire at the mega-church." (http://armsandthelaw.com/archives/2007/12/shooting_at_new_1.php)
That quote is from a story not too long ago where a man showed up armed to the teeth at a large church in Utah, assuming that a church was a prohibited area for concealed carry, and that he would have no resistance to mass murder. He was wrong. Utah allows CCW in Churches, and instead of getting his 15 minutes of fame for slaughtering a bunch of sheep, he got a Darwin award for poor planning. By the way, try to find mention of this story somewhere besides a gun blog. It’s not easy. The left wing media buries stories like this as fast as they can, and worse yet, they will out right lie to change the way you look at it: over and over in the AP versions of that news item, the woman was referred to as a ‘off duty police’ or ‘security guard.’ She was neither, as far as I can find. She was an ordinary member of the congregation with a valid CCW permit, who had volunteered to carry during services because of stories of similar attacks in other churches. Also AP failed to mention after the first rewrite of the story a quote from the CCW holder that she was convinced that “God had guided her shooting’ and gave her the accuracy to stop the attacker. Can’t have that sort of thing spread around, it might cause people to think.
If I can accomplish only one thing with my readers today, it is this: You can no longer trust the major news outlets. They are no better than Radio Cuba or Pravda at reporting the news. They report what they want you to know, in a way to make you think what they want you to think. This is why the folks in Washington are so obsessed with shutting down the blogs that point this out, and especially with talk radio. If they manage to shut down the few remaining voices of dissent, they can pretty much brainwash the great unthinking masses into going along with the big plan. That is why we have to fight, and fight hard. Nothing less than the freedom of this country is at stake in these two major battles: free speech, and the freedom to live life as you see fit, without any oversight by those who wish to enslave you.
Personally, I would never attend a church where my rights to self defense were abridged. Luckily, I don’t have to.