This guy is TOTAL HERO to me. For most of us, we have to make the decision as to whether to fight or obey when this crap happens. If we obey, maybe we live another day, if we fight, 3 good things can happen, but one bad thing will probably happen (we die)...but the good things will matter to the survivors. Among them:
1) Less bad guys: The bad guys are never very numerous, it’s just that no one will fight them, so they can act like a huge force.
2) Setting an example: If I fight, perhaps my neighbor does also...and his neighbor, and his...
3) If you’re going to be tortured and then killed anyway, they never get the pleasure. In Stalin’s days, there was a building in Moscow where KGB agents lived (or whatever they were called then). One day they heard the familiar boot-steps going up the stairs and the people living there started jumping out of windows - they knew what would happen to them if they got dragged in, because they were doing it to others. They didn’t know who in the building was targeted, but they didn’t want to find out. Now given that, if you had a gun in the apartment, instead of jumping out of the building, you simply wait for the knock and take out as many as you can, and then get killed. If that started happening on a regular basis Stalin may have found some ‘resistance’ in his ranks.
I wonder if any of the Iraqi “insurgents” that fought the US occupation tooth and nail for 10 years or more now wish the Marines were back patrolling their stink hole country?
sound reasoning