Colorado movie theater shooting

I awoke this morning, as many of you did, hearing about the shooting at the movie theater in Colorado.  This is truly sad news, and my heart goes out to the families of the victims.

The alleged perpetrator was identified as James Holmes, a former college student.  I don't know what the hell he hoped to accomplish by opening fire into a mass of innocent people, most if not all who had to be strangers to him.

What I do know, and feel embarrassment as an American to see, it that among the hundreds of people in that theater not one of them was man enough to take Holmes down once he started shooting innocent people.  It seems as though my fellow countrymen would rather curl up into a ball and wait for death to arrive, rather than take the action necessary to bring the hostilities to an end.

It was dark in there, for Christ's sake, with hundreds of people surrounding him.....there is no way he could have kept track of all his tangos in a situation like that.  One or two men could have taken him down easily from his blind side with minimal chances of being hurt.  Not taking action in that situation is nothing more than cowardice tempered with selfishness on display.

Even if the action you take results in getting shot, the way I see it, a man has got to die sometime.......you may as well make your death count for something meaningful in this world.  Saving all those people in that theater who died unnecessarily counts as something meaningful in my book.

I don't respect anyone displaying cowardice in the face of the enemy.....there was plenty of that happening yesterday, sad to say.

May God have mercy on us.



LWM out.............