Posted on 04/17/2007 7:39:36 AM PDT by freeplancer
First there was Salt Lake City, and now Virgian Tech. Trey Perkins, a 19 year old student who is now on fox News spewed his story about being in the same room as the gunman while he reloaded his weapons at least once. Did he get up and charge the gunman with reckless abandon to save his fellow students? NO
When the SLC shooting took place, the local news broadcast a cell video of the shooter discharging his weapons. While the owner of the cell phone stood there and filmed the shooter, who coincidently had his back to the camera, he did nothing. Cowards, bystanders, and wimps. I am ashamed and disgusted. Maybe it is my military training or having being in a war zone that makes me know I would take action or die trying.
I would not be jumping out of windows or filming a murderer in action, and I hope to God that whoever reads this would not either. Where are all the men?
Carry concealed, Carry openly, Carry often and aim for center mass if faced with this kind of threat or seeing it happen to others.
The American Male today has been so neutered it’s not funny. Then people wonder why nobody did anything to stop things like this.
Pathetic and tragic all at once.
Less than one student in 100 will have any idea of what you mean by 'center-mass'.
How many of our children are still taught to hunt, and basic gun safety as youth? Less than one in 1000, I think.
And yes, Osama understands this.
The American male is untrained. They didn’t do anything to stop it because they acted normally. That is a completely normal, untrained reaction to stress - to freeze and get slaughtered. Our young people are not going to know how to respond in stressful situations unless they are trained to respond as necessary.
We need to stop blaming those who were killed and start blaming the killer.
“Walk onto any college campus in America.
Less than one student in 100 will have any idea of what you mean by ‘center-mass’.
How many of our children are still taught to hunt, and basic gun safety as youth? Less than one in 1000, I think.
And yes, Osama understands this.”
I hear you about the students, but it also is a regional issue.
Here in Montana 95% of the kids would know what you mean by center mass. 9 out of 10 are handling guns at an early age, learning to shoot, learning gun safety, learning to hunt.
At least there are still 800,000 people somewhere in the US that still takes firearms ownership seriously. I’m pretty sure that with the exception of Washington and Oregon states, that most of the Northwest US is the same.
Think about this as well: All the games that teach children the basics of survival- hide and seek, tag, dodge ball-have been cut from our children’s life experiences. These games may seem useless, but they teach children to hide from or find an enemy, to twist and turn and get away, to recognize an object coming at you and how to avoid it as well as how to suck up pain if you do get hit. These games are as old as humankind, and they are hardwired into our psyches for a reason-SURVIVAL!
Not blaming those who were killed at all. I’m blaming those who have created the victim mentality in this country for aiding and abetting the killer by teaching their offspring to be passive victims instead of teaching them their civic responsibility to defend themselves and others. By deadly force if necessary.
My kids don’t have that issue.
http://www.policeone.com/writers/columnists/RachelFretz/articles/1227643/
I don't have the abilty to log into their training pages nor will someone allow you to use theirs.
All PD's should be in the mind-set to engage Active Shooters and not wait for SWAT to clear the crime scene after the fact.
You answered your own question. The "elderly man" isn't a product of this feminized generation.
We’re not blaming the dead. Please stop saying that, it’s utter nonsense. Mourning the loss of courage is not blaming the victims. If anything, I blame the society that has created this generation of people who think it’s wrong to fight back.
And, we absolutely blame the perp. Not that the sob sisters on teevee will—I’m sure he had a “troubled” childhood and had all sorts of “unresolved issues.” And Rosie will no doubt inform us that it was Bush’s fault, and outline the sinister plots that prove it.
Well on the scanner they were calling for backup blackberry charges.
Up until the last century, women were essentially excluded from the political process throughout the entire history of Western Civ. In the few exceptions were they weren't (eg Cleopatra, Elizabeth I, et al), they still governed within strictures established by men dating from the pre-dawn of history.
It has only been in the last century were we've seen attempts to engineer a "kinder, gentler" society driven primarily by women and their feminized male enablers. However, as is generally the case when good intentions meet cold reality, the results of a few million years of evolution (competition, jealousy, rage, revenge & murder - just check out chimp behavior) aren't that readily malleable.
And so, someday we will return to tried & true methods of dealing with the dark side; and future generations will look upon us with pity that we suffered so long before the dim light of truth shone once more.
Well on the scanner they were calling for backup blackberry chargers. <----correction
Maybe some kid could have helped the professor. Then we would have another victim on the dead list. I believe God has a plan. Perhaps this professor’s plan was to survive the holocaust because he had many lives to save in his classroom on the VT campus. I doubt that his man would have wanted his students with entire lives ahead of them to die beside him.
Of course I am speculating. But if I might die while trying to save my children, I would take the risk every day of the week. I certainly wouldn’t want them to bravely die beside me. I would do whatever I could so they could get away!!!
I didn't compare it to 9-11.
I understand what you’re saying. I just wanted to point out that these poor kids weren’t suffering from any lack of courage, or manhood. They acted like the perfectly normal - albeit, sadly, the untrained - kids they were. There was nothing wrong with their inner character.
May God bless all of them and their families.
There used to be.. but the cook, waiters, cashier all were deported lol. We had a restaurant here in Columbia Falls, good mexican food, REAL mexican food. But every last person working there was an illegal.
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