Why another massacre? Part 3
But in the U.S. it is perfectly fine for someone to go on the evening news and describe to the cameras how he escaped from the shooting rampage because the holocaust-survivor professor blocked the door with his body, and was shot dead, giving young men time to jump out the window. Other similar tales include running away down a hallway as other students provide a screen with their bodies, absorbing the bullets fired toward the valiant survivor, or simply lying on the floor and hoping that the shooter will choose someone else to execute.
It would be impossible to shoot a classroom full of college students if the students reacted to save each other instead of themselves! No gunman can save himself from an onslaught of 20 or 30 people at once. And you would think that young adults would be aware that getting under a "desk" that typically consists of a notebook-sized plywood slab affixed to the arm of a chair does not in fact render one either invisible or invulnerable! All it does is limit one's movement, thus making one a sitting duck for the murderer to shoot in turn. But there are lots of other targets in the room, so maybe he won't kill YOU, only other people, and that is an acceptable outcome.
It is appalling that we have become a nation of helpless cowards, who only know how to lie on the floor and hope that other people are selected for death, or who run away without regard for what is happening to those nearby. Not one person even tried to disarm the vile assassin, even as he entered classroom after classroom, with clear intent established by his previous actions. Guns don't bend around corners, and any cop or soldier can tell you that the most dangerous job is entering a room full of hostiles. (It's not for nothing that one of the highest compliments from one cop to another is "I'd go through a door with you.")
I am sorry for the victims and their families. This terrible event exemplifies what happens when a society abandons its belief in a moral code beyond rational self-interest. Killers kill, and victims pin hope of survival on others' being chosen to die.
It would be impossible to shoot a classroom full of college students if the students reacted to save each other instead of themselves! No gunman can save himself from an onslaught of 20 or 30 people at once. And you would think that young adults would be aware that getting under a "desk" that typically consists of a notebook-sized plywood slab affixed to the arm of a chair does not in fact render one either invisible or invulnerable! All it does is limit one's movement, thus making one a sitting duck for the murderer to shoot in turn. But there are lots of other targets in the room, so maybe he won't kill YOU, only other people, and that is an acceptable outcome.
It is appalling that we have become a nation of helpless cowards, who only know how to lie on the floor and hope that other people are selected for death, or who run away without regard for what is happening to those nearby. Not one person even tried to disarm the vile assassin, even as he entered classroom after classroom, with clear intent established by his previous actions. Guns don't bend around corners, and any cop or soldier can tell you that the most dangerous job is entering a room full of hostiles. (It's not for nothing that one of the highest compliments from one cop to another is "I'd go through a door with you.")
I am sorry for the victims and their families. This terrible event exemplifies what happens when a society abandons its belief in a moral code beyond rational self-interest. Killers kill, and victims pin hope of survival on others' being chosen to die.
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