It’s a Very Very Mad World

It’s a Very Very Mad World – Gary Jules

As the scapegoating begins, people will quickly loose sight of the solitary person who was responsible for yesterdays tragedy, the shooter. Already the press is filling with misinformation and biased reporting about firearms. Gun control advocates and those who oppose them (including myself) are quickly reacting, Volokh reminds us that our reaction is biased. One is quickly overwhelmed with the magnitude of the tragedy. A co-worker of a friend of my wifes has a child that is a student at VT.

The only thing I really know, and this incident confirms, there are 3 types of people in the world:

Prey, Predators, and Protectors.

One commenter on the Mancow show this morning stated he had heard the shots and it was either flight or fight. Few choose to fight, or even to protect themselves and others. Some will say they had no choice, the predator was armed, they had no way to fight back. The survival instinct comes down to mindset. Do you want to survive? Do you have the will to do what needs to be done to survive? The passengers on Flight 93 didn’t have conventional weapons, but they made due because they had the will to survive. They had the will so they found the means.

I commented on Q&O that it takes heroes to go towards the sound of gunfire. To put your life on the line to save others is the highest sacrifice and the greatest love one can have. Here is the story of one such man, a Holocaust survivor.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3388753,00.html

One of Prof Librescu’s students, Alec Calhoun, who was with him at the classroom when the shooting started, told AP that at about 9:05 am, he and classmates heard “a thunderous sound from the classroom next door, what sounded like an enormous hammer.”

When students realized the sounds were gunshots, Calhoun said, they started flipping over desks for hiding places. Others dashed to the windows of the second-floor classroom, kicking out the screens and jumping from the ledge of the room.

Calhoun said that just before he climbed out the window, he turned to look at the professor (Librescu), who had stayed behind to block the door.

Of course, it is easy to pontificate here, safely sitting at a keyboard, far removed from any danger.