Posted on 07/22/2015 12:51:21 PM PDT by Mount Athos
According to reporting from The New York Times, some of the Marines killed in the Chattanooga shooting were killed trying to draw the gunman’s fire away from another, larger group of innocent bystanders.
“Some of the Marines who were shot to death last week in Chattanooga, Tenn., effectively sacrificed themselves to save the lives of others, diverting the gunman away from a larger group of potential victims, according to a law enforcement official briefed on the investigation into the killings,” reports New York Times reporters Richard Pérez-Peña and Matt Apuzzo.
“This could have been a lot worse,” they quote the anonymous official as saying. “It could have been a horrible, horrible massacre — so much worse.” Officials are expected to give a fuller account of the shooting, perpetrated by Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez, in a Wednesday press conference.
I have no doubt.
I believe that if these fallen Marines truly felt and had time to react to protect the innocent people in harms way they certainly would have done so. However, the spin for this story is to try and prove that our Military, especially those on outside assignments, do not need to be concerned with being protected (armed) because it was not directed toward them specifically. They want us to believe that it was just another senseless attack on American people, not our military, which we understand to be a crock.
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