It's as if school shootings are a magnet for chest-thumping idiots:
In a recent post about the campus shooting at Northern Illinois University one reader, who lives near the campus, posted this:No, actually that is not a good point - it's just another poser telling you what they would have done [in their dreams] had they been there.
I am discouraged that no one took their books, laptops, anything and just threw it at the guy, no one fought back. It’s that passivity that troubles me.That’s a great point. It seems that far too often modern Americans have an instinct to cower or run away when threatened instead of fighting back. Especially younger Americans, and based on my personal experience I’d have to say that it’s being learned in our schools.
Yeah, hero - you'd have gone down swinging. Your cat-like reflexes have been honed from years of...talking about what you'd do in a crisis.
Va Tech drew out the same flavor of fool, as well.
This poster was small potatoes, but I predict we will not have long to wait before Michael Savage or someone like him rises out of the slime to make a similar comment.
2 comments:
Clockwork putrid green.
the chest-thumpers, who are never personally in the presence of the chaos of gunfire -- least of all when they might least expect it -- always seem to forget.
the assailant had a smorgasbord of firearms. guns. suuuuuure. throw your laptop at gun man. in your cartoon, batman dreams, idiot.
because we shouldn't forget one of humanity's most favoritest things about guns. an assailant doesn't even need to see you up close to kill you deader than a mackerel. you move, you're a target; an instant later you're dead.
aw heck. let's do the math. option 1. the guy steps into a lecture hall, starts shooting, kills or fatally wounds 6 people, injures a bunch more, and shoots himself in the head. option 2. four people rush the assailant with their laptops, followed by the rest of the class; "moving as a single, well-trained organism," if you like. they probably didn't even know each other, but whatever. the assailant kills the four laptop wielders before they can get near the podium, kills two of the other onrushers, injures a bunch more, and then kills himself. option 1: 7 dead, a bunch injured. option 2: 7 dead, a bunch injured. wtf??
sincerely,
thorn
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