So, another deranged idiot(s) decide to shoot up a bunch of innocent people at the Chiefs victory parade yesterday. Still haven't heard anything about the who or why, but I don't guess it matters. That will come out soon enough. But, I read a piece this morning, and just came across the actual video of a heroic couple who took down one of the shooters. Again, all I’ve seen are reports of more than one person being arrested, don’t know how many. The video looks like it happened between two cement barricades. You see a bunch of people just standing there, like they have no clue what’s happening, and some running away. Then, you see one guy tackle another and hold him while a second guy jumps on to help.
The article was about Trey and Casey Filter, a couple from Wichita. Trey tackled the shooter and Casey said the gun fell at her feet, and she picked it up and walked over to the barricade and held it on the other side. And when you see the video, sure enough, you see a woman bend down and pick up the gun and walk toward the wall. I went to a seminar several years ago on what to do if in a situation where there’s an active shooter. The whole point of it was, don’t just sit there and be a victim. Come at him with anything and everything you can get your hands on. This guy did just that. He may not have had anything he could use as a weapon, but damn sure threw himself at the shooter, and no telling how many lives he saved in doing so. Heroes!!!!
On that note, WTH has happened in society that this type thing has become almost commonplace? What happens in a person’s mind to make them think the solution to ANY problem, is to randomly kill a bunch of innocent people. This is not a rant against guns. Quite the opposite. If someone is of the mindset of offing a bunch of people, and a gun isn’t available, they’ll just find another way, and probably one more effective. Could a person have done more damage by driving a truck straight into the thousands there and mowing down as many as they could? Of course. Timothy McVeigh turned a truck into a bomb in Oklahoma City, and killed 168 people and injured almost 700 more. Quite a few people have been killed in machete attacks recently. Homemade bombs were used to kill and injure runners in the Boston Marathon. Planes were flown into buildings on 9-11 to kill about 3,000. You get the picture. If someone wants to do it, they don’t need a gun.
Spare me the get off my lawn take, but yes, back in my day, this shit wasn’t going on. My bestie in high school drove a truck, and always had a gun rack in the back window with 2 or 3 guns. In our school parking lot, there were numerous trucks with guns in clear view. Nobody used those guns to settle an argument, and nobody took them in the school to shoot the place up. If you had a beef with somebody, you threw hands, and then Coach Wilson would light your ass up with “The Board” for fighting. But this shit happens so much now, you almost become desensitized to it. Oh, another mass shooting. That’s awful. Prayers for the families. Hey, what time does Auburn play?
When these shooters don’t off themselves, as they often do, are we really trying to get to the bottom of what brought them to that place where they decided to go this route? Is it violent video games? Movies? Drugs? Social media? I have no clue. But something has drastically changed, and instead of using this as another opportunity to point fingers and make this a political debate over guns, we need to be finding out the root cause, because otherwise, it’s not going to stop.
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