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The failure of nerve is understandable without being forgivable.

And many of those who don't get that have never been tested to know how they would react - easy to rail about another being a coward if one has never been faced with running into a hot zone.....but I see a lot have "weighed in".

[Zhang Fei]

And many of those who don’t get that have never been tested to know how they would react - easy to rail about another being a coward if one has never been faced with running into a hot zone.....but I see a lot have “weighed in”.

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He was a cop. That was his job. Especially given that minors were being slaughtered.

Part of me says we should not stand in judgment of this deputy. But then I think back to that story of the coach, Aaron Feis, who threw himself in front of students at the cost of his own life. Imagine if, instead, Feis had held kids in front of himself, using them as human shields.

That is, in essence, what Deputy Scot Peterson did. He allowed kids to die so that he might live.