Nothing prepares you for the ‘real thing’.
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The one thing I might add to your comments is that LEO’s are often themselves under fire, or in imminent danger, when they use their weapons.
Not so with Cho. He had no natural predators in his situation, no having to bob and weave while carrying out his shootings. Just a thought.
“Nothing prepares you for the ‘real thing’.”
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No argument from me on that score.
“The one thing I might add to your comments is that LEO’s are often themselves under fire, or in imminent danger, when they use their weapons.”
I wasn’t belittling LEO’s in such situations, to be clear. Of course you are correct.
“Not so with Cho. He had no natural predators in his situation, no having to bob and weave while carrying out his shootings. Just a thought.”
Same adreniline rush, same confusion, same sense of time speeding up or slowing down, as is the case in any emergency, no matter if you are the cause of it or just ‘caught in the moment’.
And we don’t know yet what happened inside those halls and classrooms for sure yet.
We’ll learn more as the day progresses.