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by: Posterguy Active Indicator LED Icon 16 OP 
~ 8 years ago   Nov 28, '15 11:49am  
Was this guy pro life?
 
He dealt in death and took a good man.
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Garrett Swasey, a police officer killed in the Planned Parenthood shooting Friday, grew up in Melrose but moved to Colorado in the 1980s to pursue his first love -- competitive figure skating.
 
Six years ago, around the time his daughter was born, he joined the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs police force, his father said Friday night in an emotional phone interview. Garrett Swasey and his wife, Rachel, also have an 11-year-old son.
 
“He wanted to try to help people, which he did a lot of,” said the slain officer’s father, David Swasey, 73. “He really enjoyed his work.”
 
Garrett Swasey, 44, was one of three people allegedly murdered by a gunman who police say stormed a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs and opened fire. He surrendered hours after a tense gun battle with authorities.
 
“He was a great dad,” Swasey said. “I mean, a super dad. Everybody in the police department loved him. Anybody who ever met him loved him. He was a great guy, a great person.”
 
He said his son graduated from Melrose High School and, in addition to his wife, children, and parents, leaves an older sister.
 
Swasey said his heart sank when police informed him that his son was among the dead.
 
“It was like somebody pulled my heart out,” he said.
 
Garrett Swasey was also a man of abiding faith.
 
Reverend Scott Dontanville, co-pastor of Hope Chapel in Colorado Springs, said the slain officer had also served as a co-pastor of the reformed Protestant church.
 
Dontanville said he and Swasey, a fan of the New England Patriots, would often rib each other about their respective football allegiances, since Dontanville, like many in Colorado, roots for the Denver Broncos.
 
“That’s something he would always give us trouble for on Sunday morning,” he said of their football rivalry. “He was an awesome man. ... Great father, great husband, good friend -- caring, compassionate.”
 
Dontanville said Swasey’s faith would have helped him “go in and lay down his life for someone else.”
 
“Here’s what he would want to be known for,” he said. “He’s a man who loved the gospel of Jesus Christ, and if you stuck around him long enough, that’s what he stood for.”
 
As a skater, Garrett Swasey had trained with legendary coach Sandy Hess and won a national championship in the junior ranks, his father said.
 
He competed in the US Championships at least three times; in 1991 in Minneapolis and 1993 in Phoenix with skating partner Christine Fowler, and in 1995 in Providence with partner Hillary Tompkins.
 
“The whole figure skating world’s devastated for this loss,” David Swasey said.
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redneck roy Active Indicator LED Icon 13
~ 8 years ago   Nov 28, '15 12:05pm  
Domestic terrorist
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Posterguy Active Indicator LED Icon 16 OP 
~ 8 years ago   Nov 28, '15 1:37pm  
Yup 2 innocents without a dad, and the others too- illogical, tragic,sad.
 
"Police Officer Garrett Swasey was on duty Friday at the University of Colorado campus in Colorado Springs when the call came in that shots had been fired at a Planned Parenthood about 4 miles away.
 
As a campus police officer, Swasey was not obligated to respond, according to a university spokesman. But friends and loved ones say he was a brave and compassionate man.
 
And so he chose to go. "
 
A good man and good officer gone.
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cbp210 Active Indicator LED Icon 12
~ 8 years ago   Nov 28, '15 1:42pm  
A fellow badge is lost along with other innocent lives. My avatar reflects what I feel in this situation.
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EddyFree Active Indicator LED Icon 10
~ 8 years ago   Nov 28, '15 10:15pm  
Was this guy pro life?
 
He dealt in death and took a good man.

@Posterguy :
 
I bet I can guess his "political lean"....
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+1 Active Indicator LED Icon 14
~ 8 years ago   Nov 29, '15 6:35am  
What religion was the gunman?
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nikkiole Active Indicator LED Icon 11 Forum Moderator
~ 8 years ago   Nov 29, '15 3:29pm  
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dac2010 Active Indicator LED Icon 1
~ 8 years ago   Nov 29, '15 10:40pm  
Yall sure mental health had no play in what he did? Look at his mug shots, look at all these recent mug shots of mass shooters that they brought in alive. There is alot of very sick people out there and they seem to not be getting the help that they need for some reason.
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redneck roy Active Indicator LED Icon 13
~ 8 years ago   Nov 30, '15 9:23pm  
@dac2010
Yall sure mental health had no play in what he did

@dac2010 :
 
yeah - mental health;
 
hate media
 
whatever. Plenty of idjits out there hanging on the inspiration of extremists (talk show hosts) that don't need a lot of encouragement to act out.
 
the old mental health thing is a good argument; problem is, when you start researching, you will find statistics suggesting somewhere between 5-18% of all Americans suffer from mental illness annually. Part of the problem is that "mental illness" is such a broadly encompassing term. The other part - is that many people will either not recognize that they need treatment themselves, or if they do, fear the outcome / reprisal of hanging a documented history of having a mental illness. Nothing is simply between you and your doctor any more.
 
Here is something worth looking at.
 
shootingtracker.com/ wiki/Main_Page
 
just presenting the stats - not pro or con argument.
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dac2010 Active Indicator LED Icon 1
~ 8 years ago   Dec 1, '15 12:20am  
yeah - mental health;
 
hate media
 
whatever. Plenty of idjits out there hanging on the inspiration of extremists (talk show hosts) that don't need a lot of encouragement to act out.
 
the old mental health thing is a good argument; problem is, when you start researching, you will find statistics suggesting somewhere between 5-18% of all Americans suffer from mental illness annually. Part of the problem is that "mental illness" is such a broadly encompassing term. The other part - is that many people will either not recognize that they need treatment themselves, or if they do, fear the outcome / reprisal of hanging a documented history of having a mental illness. Nothing is simply between you and your doctor any more.
 
Here is something worth looking at.
 
shootingtracker.com/ wiki/Main_Page
 
just presenting the stats - not pro or con argument.

@redneck roy :
 
Yea, no bias there. Good ole facts "Independent thinking" whatever. You ever see anyone close to you loose there mind? Guess we should all just give up are guns?
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redneck roy Active Indicator LED Icon 13
~ 8 years ago   Dec 1, '15 6:30am  
Yes I have.
 
And no on giving up guns.
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redneck roy Active Indicator LED Icon 13
~ 8 years ago   Dec 1, '15 6:42am  
@dac2010 Yes I have.
 
And no on giving up guns.
 
I also understand that while mental health treatment in needed, it is a distractive argument used as a deflection technique. Tell me - good sir, when you bind gun ownership/possession to mental health; who gets to determine the standard? I would be willing to bet that most of these nuts could easily pass a litmus test. 8ts easy to identify the totally insane, not so much for the unstable or simply "mentally ill".
 
I am almost more concerned in allowing a grey/fuzzy standard for gun ownership. Could it become simple enough to define generic mental illness as a standard for revocation of constitutional rights? Then allowing government funded doctors the right to diagnose?
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HumbleGirl Active Indicator LED Icon 14
~ 8 years ago   Dec 1, '15 7:56am  
The other thing about mental illness is that temporary insanity thing. No way to predict if or when someone will snap when faced with something traumatic.
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