A madman has tried to give your city a bad name. But the rest of you showed your true nature – the true nature of your city. You ran to help. You stopped the madness.
I heard someone ask, why was he captured alive? Doesn’t everyone in Tucson have a gun? I’ll admit, I’m not a fan of handguns. They have no use but to kill people, something I have no interest in doing. But the fact that so many of you were in fact armed (one of the men holding the madman said he was packing) and did not draw and fire tells me that you are the responsible gun owners that the NRA holds up as examples of responsible ownership.
Just imagine the death toll had one or two people slipped a gun from their belts and began firing. Chaos would have erupted. They would have begun shooting each other, unable to tell the protectors from the original gunman. More and more innocents would have been hit by crossing bullets. More people would have been inspired to draw and add to the mess.
But despite all the available guns, the only one who fired was the madman.
The restraint and judgment of the people of Tucson should be saluted.
1 comments:
Great point. Just yesterday I read a scene in a Nelson DeMille book where the cop/private eye drives his truck wildly through a government parking lot as four guards try to stop him 'cause he doesn't have clearance.
He roars back out onto the road and thinks, "Not one of them drew their pistol. Not one of them shot me. This is what I love about this country."
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