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To: CindyDawg
Something just dawned on me. You know what is very different about this story compared to most mass murder stories?

In the other stories, there are basically two main actors - the Murderer and the Victims, plus a third minor "supporting role" in the form of the law enforcement officers who typically arrive after it's mostly over.

But this story is very different, because there is an additional role you almost never see - the Hero (or Heroine).

This puts a majorly different spin on the story. Usually you get only the single solid wave of negative emotions sweeping away everything in its path. But this time around, you end up with both the negative, gloomy, despairing wave riding the story of the victims and The Crazed One, plus you get the positive, hopeful wave riding the story of the brave heroine who could have just hunkered down and saved her own skin, but instead chose to ask for and trust in God's strength and protection, and risked her life in what looked to all the other immobile armed security guards like a surefire suicide mission.

So instead of the standard relentlessly gloomy story of the Loner's bloodsoaked, Blaze of Glory exit from the world, we get two parallel stories, one which gives us hope and joy and pride in an awesome display of what is best in the human character, a story that counteracts the Doom and Gloom of the other story.

Maybe I'm being overly optimistic here, but I can't help but wonder if this hugely positive story that keeps popping its head up over, and dominating the negative story that the perp envisioned as being his swan song, might act to discourage other like minded perp-wannabe's who will think twice about doing something similar that could horrifyingly (for them) turn out to be a Story With A Happy Ending. Believe me, they do NOT want a Happy Ending to the story of their deaths! They do not want to throw away their lives in some "Hero Is Born" scenario whereby after a little time has passed, the only name people remember from the story is the name of the Hero who Saved The Day.

What do you guys think?

I dunno. It's late and maybe I just should be in bed now instead of trying to write something coherent.

Over and out.

2,047 posted on 12/10/2007 11:46:38 PM PST by CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC
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To: CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC

excellent observation that is worth of passing along to others. IE:Media, emails etc.. I think you are right!

G’nite!


2,049 posted on 12/10/2007 11:50:18 PM PST by Freedom2specul8 (Please pray for our troops.... http://anyservicemember.navy.mil/)
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To: CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC

Believe me, they do NOT want a Happy Ending to the story of their deaths! They do not want to throw away their lives in some “Hero Is Born” scenario whereby after a little time has passed, the only name people remember from the story is the name of the Hero who Saved The Day.<<<

You make an interesting point..........Good thinking.

My fear is that it is all a game with them, the end result they seek, is to be known for shooting/killing the highest number of people.


2,052 posted on 12/11/2007 12:12:11 AM PST by nw_arizona_granny (I vote to outlaw hidden links in articles. If the URL is worthy of clicking, then show it.)
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To: CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC
We can't be having heroes. A search for other possibilities and character questions are probably already being looked at. I think we are even seeing some of that on FR.

This situation,is loaded with God, faith, answered prayer, miracles , forgiving etc. That probably makes some ancy.

2,108 posted on 12/11/2007 8:33:36 AM PST by CindyDawg
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To: CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC

LOL.. You did just fine, even for being tired. And, I agree with what you are saying here... Within this incident — which has its horrible parts — there are also definite positives. And, all of it goes back to G-d. This person was intent on shattering faith, but instead he has made it stronger — at least for me...


2,139 posted on 12/11/2007 9:30:12 AM PST by LibertyRocks
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