On Heroes, Dead And Alive

It’s hard to believe that this particular angle on this story – about the shooting at the mall near Portland, Oregon, which happened a few days before the New Town, Connecticut shooting – didn’t get national coverage:

PORTLAND — Nick Meli is emotionally drained. The 22-year-old was at Clackamas Town Center with a friend and her baby when a masked man opened fire.
“I heard three shots and turned and looked at Casey and said, ‘are you serious?,'” he said.
The friend and baby hit the floor. Meli, who has a concealed carry permit, positioned himself behind a pillar.
“He was working on his rifle,” said Meli. “He kept pulling the charging handle and hitting the side.”

[Aside to shooters; poor gun maintenance actually saved lives.  Who knew?]

The break in gunfire allowed Meli to pull out his own gun, but he never took his eyes off the shooter.
“As I was going down to pull, I saw someone in the back of the Charlotte move, and I knew if I fired and missed, I could hit them,” he said.
Meli took cover inside a nearby store. He never pulled the trigger. He stands by that decision.
“I’m not beating myself up cause I didn’t shoot him,” said Meli. “I know after he saw me, I think the last shot he fired was the one he used on himself.”
The gunman was dead, but not before taking two innocent lives with him and taking the innocence of everyone else.
“I don’t ever want to see anyone that way ever,” said Meli. “It just bothers me.”

As it should anyone with a human soul.

But as the media celebrates the teachers in New Town as heroes for dying to try to protect their students – as it should – it’s high time we took a moment to praise our live heroes; the ones that choke back their fear and respond to unexpected trauma…

…and because they had the tools they needed to confront the trauma,  a deranged killer, at closer to even odds, were able to be live heroes.

15 thoughts on “On Heroes, Dead And Alive

  1. but DG, who just can’t get her homework done, categorically insists:
    “There has been exactly ZERO instances of a person carrying a gun, civilian or law enforcement or security, that has ever stopped a mass shooting, much less a mass shooting at a school.”

    no this story will not be pushed 24/7 by Regime Radio and the rest because it doesn’t fit the narrative, it doesn’t portray a citizen as a passive subject.

  2. I posted a pro-gun comment at 8:20, still hasn’t come up. Are they screening for content to create an artificial appearance of uniform opinion?

  3. yes nate, MPR is very definitely moderating the postings to “shape the narrative” to a consensus/regime palatable viewpoint.

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