Update: “The shooter was lining people up and asking if they were Christian,” she wrote. “If they said yes, then they were shot in the head. If they said no, or didn’t answer, they were shot in the legs. Chris Mercer Harper, 26 years old was the shooter.
Let’s see what stands up over the next set of hours and days.
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This is the kind of headline that I normally put up as a simple BlogHeadline of the Day simply because it evokes a sense of “you have GOT to be kidding me” bordering on a WTF moment. This one, however, had a sense of rage and blood pressure rise:
CNN Report: Veterans Tried to leave Classroom to Stop Shooter, Denied By Staff
A lot of returning vets still hold themselves to the standard of not just protecting the Constitution but also others – trained to run towards the sounds of fighting and having the skills to do something once there. I saw it a couple of weeks ago when I heard a loud noise and a person in what I thought was our yard and our dogs started ferociously barking. I started to run upstairs to go fetch something; the Youngest came barreling down the stairs and immediately ran outside – a look on his face I’d not seen before. But he ran, not to the sound of gunfire, but to protect us.
Look, it will be a few days before we know all the details other than where it happened, people were killed by a 20 year old guy and there was some talk on 4chan that has come up that he warned people of what was going to do. Also we have reports that he told people to lay down and then get up and tell him what religion they believed.
That’s it. My point is that there were people, of adult age, trained, and wanted to help minimize danger. And were not allowed to do so. Yet another case of “leave it to the professionals” mentality? That adults that may have seen combat were not allowed to minimize casualties?
When will we all learn that First Responders are not “other people” and that WE are our own First Responders? One other report is that it took 5 minutes for the police to arrive. That is a whole lot of trust for a whole lot of time that nothing will go wrong with an active shooter nearby.
Would they have been able to stop the shooter, keep people save, kept themselves safe? Completely unknown. But does “Let’s Roll!” ring a bell? What about those three Americans on that French train – what if they had done nothing (even as the “professionals” on the train were running away per union contract)?
Is living out the Left’s mantra of victimhood that worth it?
