Democrats prove they are irrelevant once again….

Okay Chris, before you jump down my throat I’m not saying ALL Democrats are irrelevant, just the ones in Congress.

It seems that all the “fuss” about torture and waterboarding coming from the left has had a new light shown on it. According to a Washington Post article on Sunday, in September of 2002 a delegation of four lawmakers got a close look at CIA overseas detention sites and interrogation techniques. Those four lawmakers were Rep. Jane Harmon (D-CA), Sen. Bob Graham (R-FL), Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV (D-W.VA), and my personal favorite, Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA).

Those lawmakers offered no challenge to the legitimacy of the interrogation tactics (including waterboarding), and on the contrary at least two of the lawmakers involved in the briefing that day questioned whether the CIA was pushing hard enough.

“Among those being briefed, there was a pretty full understanding of what the CIA was doing," Porter Goss, a former CIA director and congressman who chaired the House intelligence panel at the time of the briefings, told The Post. "And the reaction in the room was not just approval, but encouragement."

Now, lets talk about a true hero. This past Sunday, Matthew Murray entered the 10,000+ member New Life Church in Colorado Springs carrying three weapons and over 1,000 rounds of ammunition (and no, Murray is not our hero). Murray diverted people from the exit doors with smoke cannisters as he entered the only clear doorway, and Murray began shooting.

Given the fact that Michael Murray entered with three weapons and 1,000 rounds of ammo, it’s easy to assume that his goal was to build a huge body count. As it is, Murray took the life of two teenage sisters, Stacy and Rachel works. The reason that Murray was unsuccessful in adding to the body count was because of Jeanne Assam.

Jeanne is our hero. Jeanne, who was attending service as the time, was scheduled to work a security detail later at the church. A former policewomen, Jeanne was carrying a weapon at the time, and once the shooting started Jeanne’s thoughts turned not to her own safety, but rather for the safety of the fellow parishioners.

As the gunman entered the church in body armor and wielding an assault rifle, she prayed to God and shot him dead. She said at a news conference on Monday, “God guided me and protected me. I give credit to God. God was with me. I didn’t think for a minute to run away.”

“I saw him coming through the doors” and initially took cover. I came out of cover and identified myself and engaged him and took him down.”

It’s hard to say how many lives Jeanne saved that day, but given the size of the crowd and the firepower, it’s not inconceivable to say that without Jeanne, we may be looking at the largest mass murder in U.S. History.

Why Murray did this is still being pieced together. Police are also looking at him as the likely suspect for two murders earlier that day at a missionary training center 70 miles away. One of the comments that I read at one website said something that I thought very interesting “It is perhaps worth noting that the toll in Sunday’s shootings exceeded the combined total in all “hate crimes” against Muslims in the six years since September 11.” Okay, that’s not really the direction I was going with my report, but I did find it interesting.

The obvious discussion that arises from this horrific situation has to do with the arguments that we see anytime there is a mass shooting, be it Columbine, Virginia Tech, or last weeks shooting in the Omaha Mall, the pro-2nd amendment crowd always arises with the argument: “If only the citizenry were armed, they could have stopped something like this.” Hmm, apparently they were right?

Look, I’m not an “NRA Gun Nut”, I don’t even own a gun (unless you are considering breaking into my house, in which case I own a lot of guns), and I know this isn’t a “Black and White” situation. I do know however that the next time there is a mass shooting when there is not an armed presence around, those on the other side stating “Arming the Principal/Pilot/Whatever would not have made a difference” are going to have a real difficult time making that argument stick.

Or they could just pull a Pelosi and agree with the situation at one point, and be disgusted by it when it is no longer acceptable.