Yeah, that's what I thought.
Romney spoke well today and should be commended for the bright distinction between his words and the crass narcissism of this president.
And his actions.
You thought wrong.
The continued pussification of Americans is astounding.
Tons of people in that theater had big-gulp cups filled with drinks. They had tubs of popocorn. Instead of lobbing them at the guy to at least throw him off, they ducked and ran, because that's what the pussification of America has conditioned them to do in principle AND in practice.
I don't know what I'd have done, but I like to think I'd have done the equivalent of what Todd Beamer did: "Let's roll." Not "Let's roll over." Not rolling over in principle to a statist Republican like Romney because Obama is just too scary, and not rolling over in practice to a poor bastard nutcase with a gun because he had a smoke bomb and body armor.
Having discussed this with some guys pretty well-trained in concealed carry, here's the deal: a .45 slug hitting that body armor would have at least staggered him. A .45 slug hitting that gas mask or his throat would have ended him. A .45 slug hitting his arm or his leg or his groin would have slowed him down. Smoke bombs and semi-darkness would have made it more challenging, but do you know what adrenalin often does to how people see in the dark? I know first-hand what it does.
Maybe a concealed-carry guy in that theater -- or several of them -- would have missed. But maybe they would have hit him; the better trained and cooler-headed they were, the more likely there would have been fewere dead and injured in that poor soul's rampage.
Romney deserves no more commendation than Obama. He's still a statist who is an agent of government tyranny and "roll over" pussification of American courage.
I think 40-50 bullets, headed in his general direction; might have given him SOME kind of epiphany!