A shame none of the three, or anyone in the theatre, was armed.
In one part of the theater, Jon Blunk, 25, a security guard who’d served on the U.S.S. Nimitz and wanted to become a Navy SEAL, pushed his girlfriend, Jansen Young, to the floor and under her seat, then covered her with his own body and held her tight. Elsewhere in the same theater, during the same terrifying moments, Alex Teves, 24, who’d just finished earning a master’s degree in clinical psychology, was pushing his girlfriend, Amanda Lindgren, to the floor and shielding her with his body. Still elsewhere in the theater Matt McQuinn, 27, a clerk at Target, was doing the same thing for his girlfriend Samantha Yowler.
All three of these young men died; all three of these young women lived.
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BTTT
...”But all three of them acted like Navy SEALs”....
Bravo Sierra!
I disagree with this 100%. If they HAD acted like Navy SEALs, they would have acted, not remained passive. Now, I wasn’t there, but it seems the people in the theater were far more like Europeans than were the guys on board United 93 on 9/11/2001. The latter MEN did act like Navy SEALS, taking direct action against the musloids.
This Frontpage piece is ridiculous on its face.
There where several other heroic acts in the theatre that night. I counted at least eight. The most heroic in my opinion was a thirteen year old who stayed, when she could have run, with bullets flying and the confusion and tried to get an adult body of the six year old girl to try to save her life. The three men prominent in this article and adults gave their lives protecting their girl friends, someone they knew. This girl thirteen years old stayed to help a stranger risking her life in doing so.
While trying to count the acts of heroism I was wondering if this is a part of what we as Americans are and if that degree of heroism is found in other nations. That question was answered by this article. There was a disquieting thought with this. Twenty, thirty even fifty years ago there would have been an active offence not just passive defence. A half dozen or more men in a full out charge at the shooter would have taken him out with fewer deaths. What has changed from fifty years ago?
Thanks for the thought provoking post. It’s nice to know that there are still men and women of honor, even in the younger generations, and that American heroism hasn’t yet been bred out of the American culture.
Re: All three of these young men died; all three of these young women lived.
This is why women do not belong in combat, because the male instinct is to protect an endangered female