Of course there are different schools of thought…

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1. Goober says:

   February 7, 2014 at 7:07 pm

   Yup. When “run and hide” is the prescription of the day when faced with abject evil, you’ve exposed two things about the character of the society espousing that behavior:

   1.) They are cowards, who would allow evil to reign supreme in order to preserve their own lives;
   2.) They are selfish. Running and hiding is the ultimate in selfish behavior – it preserves your life, at the expense of others.

   It is a sad sort of place that would look at a man who’d brace himself, square up at the shoulders, draw, and fire, as being backwards, backwoods, and “living in the wrong century,” while the man who runs for cover, likely screaming like a child, while others are being murdered is held in high esteem, and put out as the ideal modern man.

   There is a third man, there, too. This is the man who as bought into the line that he must be de-fanged and disarmed, who is unprepared to face evil, but does so anyway because he hasn’t been cowed and neutered enough to run and hide when others are dying. This is the man for whom I feel the sorriest, because he still has the instinct to fight back, but has allowed the suggestions of others as to what his “polite” course of action should be dictate his state of readiness, and therefore likely seal his fate.

   Anti-gunners love this guy. The hero who sacrificed himself to save others.