Is this the so-called "process" of healing? In that case, sweeping the facts under the rug helps nobody. The correct response to the other guards' non-response is to find some new guards, not punish the whistle blower. Those that are traumatized by the shooting and still refuse to take measures to defend themselves will probably take comfort in knowing they're no longer guarded by sheep.
Ladies and gentlemen of Freerepublic.com, your protection is up to you. Leadership will not and can not protect you. Get your concealed carry permit and bear arms everywhere that it is legal to do so.
I'm betting that they're either off-duty or retired cops, who stood by for reasons similar to those exhibited by the responding cops at Columbine who sttod by and let the slaughter continue.
There may be matters of Colorado state law involved, or *uniform* training of local police at the state level. Or maybe it's something in the water.
Those that are traumatized by the shooting and still refuse to take measures to defend themselves will probably take comfort in knowing they're no longer guarded by sheep.
The problem seems to be that the guards who froze- maybe reasonably, maybe not- are in fact still the ones watching over the flock. And one of the few who actually did anything has been ejected for his trouble. It appears that the real reason for the armed guards is to act as the pastor's bodyguards, as was Jeanne Assam, the armed female.
The analogue is the post 09/11 situation when, after the passengers of one hijacked airliner resisted the hijackers with the very limited equipment available to them, and warned the rest of the nation via repoted cell phone/skyPhone calls, the government response was to further disarm passengers and flight deck crew and to forbid carrying cell phones on board.