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though her reaction is understandable, we can call her a coward, too.

Really?

If she had responded by saying "Shoot my daughter, I'm not giving you the code", how many lives would have been spared? Would the terrorists have been satisfied with her death and just left the building because they couldn't get in?

I contend that the body count would have increased by at least two if she had not opened the door. The terrorists were not going to be deterred by a security lock. They would have just kept killing people until they got in. Once they were in, the victims who ended up getting killed were all sitting ducks, trapped without firearms in a gun free zone.

It takes a very small man to call a protective mother a coward. If it was your daughter would you have just let them shoot her? Do you think you would have prevented any deaths by sacrificing your own child on the Kingsport chance that maybe you might slow down an inevitable massacre?

I have put my family's safety on the line publicly denouncing the “technobarbarians” as I think of them. Thus we had to be protected by FBI, local police, etc. at least had them involved in advance. This was 25+ years ago. I was scared, but being American, could build layers of protection around us. So I am aware of this danger we are placed in by a nihilist political leadership and a morally bankrupt culture. That said, had I been armed to fight and had to choose, I'd hope to not be around anymore to suffer what that mother is going to live with-- the knowledge that she saved her child but failed to protect that her from watching the execution of those brave journalists. No, it was a lose/lose for that mom in France yesterday. And my heart goes out to her for what she will endure from now on. Travis is an experienced fighter and he has every right to pound his point, given what he has done for the sake of our freedom to (still) argue on this Forum. But I cannot say to him, “Yes, I would have been willing to sacrifice my child in the name of liberty.” Impossible to know.
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