Don't know if you've seen the news, but in Panama City, Florida at a school board meeting, a man pulls a gun. He ends up firing it at the Superintendent, and eventually dies on scene.
He lets people leave. It's all on video.
My question is..WHERE ARE THE MEN? Oh yeah, they're sitting RIGHT THERE letting a pitiful old woman defend them!!!!
In this video you see a big black man is one of the first to leave. Women are the last to leave, and the ones who tempt the gunman's ire....
It is a sad sad day when an overweight nut job with a gun can freeze grown men in their tracks, or make them run like little girls, and women are left to defend everyone.
Don’t know how long they’ll keep this video up…but it was public access so shouldn’t be an issue at YT.
Gah.
Gah!!!
Very good point. The smartest move for her would have been to quietly move for the exit so she could help summon security and become one less potential casualty. Shes lucky he didn't kill her.. that would have been really tough on her family right in time for the holidays. I guess CS Lewis was right... experience can be a brutal teacher.
I love how you guys condemn her for not thinking, but are perfectly ok with men who did the same thing. Because running away and freezing are just full of intellectual plotting.
CS Lewis was a great man.
Which men are you talking about? The ones at the table who tried to reason with him?
I used to watch Flashpoint which was a show about these types of situations. In it, these specially trained men and women would go into a hostage type situation and after securing the area they would then try to reason/talk down the agitated gunman. They would get personal trying to find something that they could use as leverage to get the agitated person to calm down. They never went in there blazing their weapons although they had them at the ready and would do so if necessary. But that was NOT the first step in every show.
That's what I saw the men at the table doing. They were trying to calm the man down by trying to help him think about other alternatives getting personal with him inquiring about his wife. Most of the time that's all that is needed to diffuse the situation.
Also I only heard the gunman say he was going to die that day. I'd have to watch it again, but I don't remember him saying he was going to kill anyone. According to the newspaper his wife said he had no intention in killing anyone and if he had he could have easily since he was an excellent marksman.
Merry Christmas Tonya! (((((((((((((T)))))))))))
Those are exactly who I mean. Talking the man to death doesn't seem like a viable option to me. A man walks in with a gun and we're supposed to "trust" that talking to him will curb his intention? That he is "really" not there to harm anyone? Then why not let everyone go but one person?
Of course he went there to kill people. Why else conceal a weapon, write a V on the wall, and then pull the weapon out and point it at someone, later FIRING at someone.
Why not just kill himself at home then?
As for being an expert shooter, we only have his wife's comment about that. Doesn't make it true. And when he was shot, he turned and tried to shoot the guy sitting on the end. Doesn't sound like someone who was intent on not hurting someone to me.
Those men weren't "trained" to re-act in a hostage situation any more than trained in a more violent response. Yet they chose the former. Weak. Sorry. It just is.
MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!
I have nothing to add to this, just wanted to say BOOYAH!
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