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.