“I really don’t understand this trend in this country to hail people as heroes for doing the job they were hired to do.”
In most cases I would agree with you. But she was outgunned by some joker wearing body armor (if the reports are to be believed). Rushing him and taking him down took guts as well as skill with a pistol. Had she missed (by that I mean a small target not covered by helmet or vest), she’d probably be dead.
Assuming the facts are as I described them from the reports I have heard, I’d say she could rightly be called a hero.
I’ve known plenty of security guards who would have turned tail against those odds with the justification “they don’t pay me enough.”
Thank you for not having the same knee-jerk reaction to my original statement as many others. I have a cable news channel on in the background all day, everyday, and I hear the word 'hero' so many times, you cease to stop and listen. Kinda like 'news alerts' don't really get my attention anymore because it is usually a report on Brittany or something equally as trivial. Another word that has become some commonplace that I ignore it these days is 'outrage'. All somebody has to do is disagree with something these days and it is reported as 'outrage'. There is an overuse of some words that used to have a meaning that made it stand out.
I never stated that what this lady did was commonplace or that she shouldn't be held up for doing a very good thing. To be perfectly honest, if I had taken my gun to guard some folks that were expecting trouble, and trouble actually happened, I would not expect to be heralded as a hero. Guess it's just me.