"You Shoot Like A Girl...."

And it was Sgt. Kimberly Munley (pictured far left, with country music star Dierks Bentley), a 34-year-old civilian police officer, who took down after Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan's murder spree at Ft. Hood that killed 13 people and wounded 30, driven by his Muslim beliefs.

The best man for the job here was a woman. Sgt. Munley - who is 5'4" and 120 pounds and has been a cop for at least five years - and her partner responded within three minutes of reports of gunfire. Sgt. Munley, who had been trained in active-response tactics, rushed into the building and confronted Hasan as he was turning a corner. They exchanged fire. Sgt. Manley shot him four times, despite being shot herself (three times in the hand and the leg; one of the bullets pierced an artery and thus she's undergoing surgery today). Hasan is comatose in a Texas hospital. Our heroine is in stable condition.

On her Twitter page, Sgt. Munley writes in her bio: "I live a good life....a hard one, but I go to sleep peacefully @ night knowing that I may have made a difference in someone's life". Yes, you did, Sgt. Munley, because additional lives could've been lost without your actions.

Baldilocks, a black conservative Republican female and military veteran, writes: "Someone at Ace's mentioned that it's a bit of poetic justice that this particular Islamist (yes) was taken down by a woman. I concur."

I agree with Gawker that this is another argument in favor of women in combat, if they meet the same qualifications as their male peers...