Saw that and almost destroyed my TV. I was struck during the night of the Paris attacks by the story of a young man who carried a girl away from the theater. She had been shot and was bleeding out from a wound in the leg, and rather than try to do any first aid at all on her, the young man threw her into a taxi and told it to take her to the hospital. He wasn’t sure if she was alive or dead at the time of the telling. An American would have tried to render aid, and ridden to the hospital in the taxi with the girl. The Frenchman’s attitude was that he was not an expert, after all, and she needed experts. Likewise, the folks at the theater didn’t seem to even think about overpowering three gunmen, even though there were hundreds of people there. They waited for the “experts” to show up. I saw the photograph take inside the theater before the show started, and there were a lot if fit young men in that audience. Shows you what operative conditioning will do to a whole nation.
“Shows you what operative conditioning will do to a whole nation.”
Good point. Helps explain why the Foreign Legion is the best fighting unit in the French military. Their officers are French, however, & schooled at l’Academie St. Cyr, the toughest military college in the world.
Our younger generation in college, meanwhile, are demanding stress-free environments & “safe spaces”.
My safe space is whatever air surrounds me & my firearm.
“Likewise, the folks at the theater didn’t seem to even think about overpowering three gunmen, even though there were hundreds of people there. They waited for the “experts†to show up. I saw the photograph take inside the theater before the show started, and there were a lot if fit young men in that audience. Shows you what operative conditioning will do to a whole nation.”
It took 3 Americans to save all the French on a train last August.
1-—Do we know he didn’t?. Perhaps he some basic, even if he didn’t, perhaps its sometimes better to get someone as quickly as possible. Sorry, but I doubt anyone would not try and stem bloodflow and do some basic help.
2—Please don’t turn this into a France vs American thing. You aren’t superior beings, just human like the rest of us.
3—Very easy to say youd be all John Wayne, these were young people faced by three men armed to the teeth.
4—And what about all the spree killers in the US?. Why didn’t anyone rush James Holmes et al and the myriad of US school shooters?. Why didn’t anyone go out and help Kitty Genovese?. Seems you’re just as conditioned as France or anywhere else.
1-—Do we know he didn’t?. Perhaps he did some basic help, even if he didn’t, perhaps its sometimes better to get someone as quickly as possible to hospital. Sorry, but I doubt anyone would not try and stem bloodflow and do some basic help.
2—Please don’t turn this into a France vs American thing. You aren’t superior beings, just human like the rest of us.
3—Very easy to say youd be all John Wayne, these were young people faced by three men armed to the teeth.
4—And what about all the spree killers in the US?. Why didn’t anyone rush James Holmes et al and the myriad of US school shooters?. Why didn’t anyone go out and help Kitty Genovese?. Seems you’re just as conditioned as France or anywhere else.