Sunday, July 29, 2012

No, I Did Not Die In the Aurora, Colorado Shooting

The other night, I found some people had found my blog by doing Google searches for a "Matt Quinn" and the recent shooting in Aurora, Colorado.  I thought maybe my policy proposals to prevent gun crime without gun control had gone viral, so I decided to search myself.

It turns out that one of those killed in the Colorado shooting was named Matt McQuinn, but some media outlets reported his name as Matt Quinn.  Here's a link to a story about the funerals of several of the dead, including Mr. McQuinn.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/28/justice/colorado-theater-shooting/index.html

He died shielding his girlfriend from gunfire, so let us all have a moment of silence in his honor.

Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.  John 15:13, NIV.

2 comments:

  1. Being another "Matt Quinn", I too had this same sort of experience. Made all the more spooky by the fact the poor chap's birthday was just two days before my own...

    How fragile we all are.

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  2. Wow. Even more creepily coincidental.

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