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This woman survived the Navy Yard shooting...after being shot by the killer....
"I have always been pro-Second Amendment and a supporter of the Constitution," she told Gun Power Magazine. "The shooting didn’t do anything to change my mind. What it gave me was a clearer focus of what’s the real issue when it comes to mass shootings? What are we looking at as a society and a culture when a mass shooting occurs? A cause of mass shootings really falls into one of two categories: mental illness or terrorism. There’s not much in between that. The only mass shooting they haven’t classified as either mental illness or terrorism was the Las Vegas shooting, but a good percentage of the time, it’s discovered that the shooter had a history of known mental illness."
Since Bennett actually survived a mass shooting, meaning she was actually shot and saw her attacker, she was asked what the difference was between her and the March For Our Lives children. She didn't hesitate to point out that people deviate from the law when they react emotionally.
"I don’t think they understand the full topic," said Bennet. "I think some of them have unwittingly allowed themselves to be used by the politicos to help divide the nation regarding weapons. I’m not sure they understand the whole question and what comes with it."
Showtime or Starz has a show called "Active Shooter." This woman was interviewed on the show, she was shot by the killer with a shotgun to the arm....she lost almost all of the muscle tissue of her upper arm....
Here is more of her story.....
A Washington Navy Yard shooting survivor’s journey of pain and resilence
he pain can get ugly. It travels from Jennifer Bennett’s shoulder, which was blown to pieces by the Navy Yard shooter, through her left arm, which was shredded, to her thumb, which was destroyed by a shotgun blast that tore a five-inch hole in her chest and arm.
An angry eight-inch scar crosses her chest and runs down her arm, which is now connected to her shoulder by a metal plate and 10 screws. Muscle is missing from the back of her arm, creating a two-inch crater. Most of her tricep is gone. Her thumb, which was blown inside out, has been reconstructed. But the damaged nerve endings never stop throbbing.
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Alexis wanted to kill her, too. She knows because she looked him in the eye and watched him make a decision to shoot her. She doesn’t know why she did not die that day. Instead, she became one of five people who were injured.
“God left me here for a purpose,” says Bennett, 57, who reads the Bible every day and draws much of her strength from her faith. “My job is to fulfill that.”
"I have always been pro-Second Amendment and a supporter of the Constitution," she told Gun Power Magazine. "The shooting didn’t do anything to change my mind. What it gave me was a clearer focus of what’s the real issue when it comes to mass shootings? What are we looking at as a society and a culture when a mass shooting occurs? A cause of mass shootings really falls into one of two categories: mental illness or terrorism. There’s not much in between that. The only mass shooting they haven’t classified as either mental illness or terrorism was the Las Vegas shooting, but a good percentage of the time, it’s discovered that the shooter had a history of known mental illness."
Since Bennett actually survived a mass shooting, meaning she was actually shot and saw her attacker, she was asked what the difference was between her and the March For Our Lives children. She didn't hesitate to point out that people deviate from the law when they react emotionally.
"I don’t think they understand the full topic," said Bennet. "I think some of them have unwittingly allowed themselves to be used by the politicos to help divide the nation regarding weapons. I’m not sure they understand the whole question and what comes with it."
Showtime or Starz has a show called "Active Shooter." This woman was interviewed on the show, she was shot by the killer with a shotgun to the arm....she lost almost all of the muscle tissue of her upper arm....
Here is more of her story.....
A Washington Navy Yard shooting survivor’s journey of pain and resilence
he pain can get ugly. It travels from Jennifer Bennett’s shoulder, which was blown to pieces by the Navy Yard shooter, through her left arm, which was shredded, to her thumb, which was destroyed by a shotgun blast that tore a five-inch hole in her chest and arm.
An angry eight-inch scar crosses her chest and runs down her arm, which is now connected to her shoulder by a metal plate and 10 screws. Muscle is missing from the back of her arm, creating a two-inch crater. Most of her tricep is gone. Her thumb, which was blown inside out, has been reconstructed. But the damaged nerve endings never stop throbbing.
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Alexis wanted to kill her, too. She knows because she looked him in the eye and watched him make a decision to shoot her. She doesn’t know why she did not die that day. Instead, she became one of five people who were injured.
“God left me here for a purpose,” says Bennett, 57, who reads the Bible every day and draws much of her strength from her faith. “My job is to fulfill that.”
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