“To be fair, none of us knows how we would react when confronted with a situation like this.”
Actually, many of us do.
But I understand your sentiment.
None of us who aren’t “trained” LEOs you mean?
You’re wrong. We do definitely know how we would react. If we had any doubts before, Todd Beamer reminded us that we would know. We would try to call our loved ones, we would pray and we would act.
Were they under orders not to shoot?
I’d like to think I would of bought, talked or fought the gun off the officer.
Perhaps, but proper police are trained and would do something.
Yes, but we’re not trained professionals whose job is to protect the public. This is unforgivable.
I do. I already have a deathwish so the risk of dying part would be a joy.
I’m a coward. Since I am a coward I would be emptying my sidearm into terrorists like no tomorrow.
I’m guessing the police officers were in shock. Since they had no orders to do anything, they did nothing.
That’s one brave photographer.
So true: no one really knows what their reaction will be until it happens.
I can absolutely tell you with all my body, brain, and heart, if I had been in that station with a gun....I would have been firing rounds.
With all due respect, some of us do. And you can be sure our service member freepers who have been in the sh!t know how they would react, too.
It is fair to say that until you have been in a life-or-death situation, you don’t nay can’t know. I’m guessing that’s what you meant, and I agree 100%.
BULL $hit! Anyone armed and silently hiding should be shot! LEO or not!
Don’t try this here, the terrorists first would know better and second would find out just how armed citenzen are.
Well that is a stupid statement considering you are commenting on FR when many of us have been is situations similar to this one and found out exactly what we would do. Speak for yourself. Anyone who fails to shoot back in a situation such as this is simply to cowardly to be a cop, or claim human status as far as that goes. Even if they only killed one or two of the terrorists(Not gunmen, terrorists)they would probably have saved some lives and, at the very least, have disrupted their plans.
Excuse me, but that has got to be the stupidest thing I've ever seen posted on FreeRepublic.
But none of us here are charged with protecting the lives of travellers at a train station.
We see swarms of police officers at Penn Station NY, Grand Central Station, etc.
The thought that they would not shoot someone who appeared in the station with a gun like that is terrifying.
Given that you have to give your first born to get a concealed carry permit in NY
I don't agree at all. There are plenty of occasions where people have taken down the perps with concerted action.
If we can believe news reports there were 15 perps all told. They were split of into teams of two.
If "masses of armed police" can't take out 2 perps then ehre's something deeper going on here that none of us don't understand.
But you conention that nobody knows what they would do until they came up against this situation is just goofy from the outset.
Todd Beamer and his pals taught us what people CAN do.
Well then we had better ask god for some fortitude because we are at war and i intend to help us win.