Reading this and that on the internet today about the Aurora Massacre I realized with mild shock that I've been there. In that situation. I don't think about it much - it's just something that happened once.
Which is to say that I was once under arms without ammunition [1], a dozen feet from a guy who was trying real hard to kill people. He didn't [2] which is down to darkness and a whole lot of luck. [3]
But I gotta think than anyone who has actually been there, experienced it first hand, has thought about it, doesn't have a lot of truck with people who want victims to cower under a desk, for them to wait for the cops to show up, who feel that an armed citizen facing down a killer just makes it worse.
[1] Which is the stupid-silly kind of thing that happens in the military. That time it was poor communication, happenstance, and fum-duckery, not SOP.
[2] F*cking boot.
[3] The good guys trying to kill him back didn't succeed either. Lots of luck running around that night.
Which is to say that I was once under arms without ammunition [1], a dozen feet from a guy who was trying real hard to kill people. He didn't [2] which is down to darkness and a whole lot of luck. [3]
But I gotta think than anyone who has actually been there, experienced it first hand, has thought about it, doesn't have a lot of truck with people who want victims to cower under a desk, for them to wait for the cops to show up, who feel that an armed citizen facing down a killer just makes it worse.
[1] Which is the stupid-silly kind of thing that happens in the military. That time it was poor communication, happenstance, and fum-duckery, not SOP.
[2] F*cking boot.
[3] The good guys trying to kill him back didn't succeed either. Lots of luck running around that night.
