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| 2023-04-13 |
| [The Federalist] The report of a mass shooting in a bar in Thousand Oaks, California, in 2018 was more than a news account of a crime. It was also a story about two young men. The killer was 28-year-old Ian David Long, a college dropout, divorced former Marine who was unemployed and living with his mother. He knew the Borderline Bar and Grill held a weekly college night when it would be crowded with young people. He entered the bar dressed in black, a hood pulled over his head. Tossing smoke grenades into the crowd to create confusion, he drew out a pistol with a laser sight and started shooting. A sergeant from the sheriff’s office rushed over to help, but the shooter was waiting for him. After killing the sergeant and 12 other people, Long shot himself. In the crowd that night was another young man, 20-year-old Matt Wennerstrom, who emerged as the hero of the hour. Sporting a backward baseball cap and a scruffy beard, Matt looked like a typical college student. But what he did was not at all typical. As soon as shots began booming through the bar, he and about seven other young men grabbed as many people as they could and pushed them under a pool table for cover. Then they piled their own bodies over them to protect them from the hail of gunfire. One woman, who was celebrating her 21st birthday at the bar that night, told reporters afterward, "There were multiple men who got on their knees and pretty much blocked all of us with their back toward the shooter, ready to take a bullet for any single one of us." When the shooter paused to reload, Matt and his friends threw bar stools through a back window and began shepherding people outside. Repeatedly, the young men rushed back into the bar to steer more people to safety. How did Matt have the presence of mind to respond so quickly to danger? When a reporter at the scene of the crime asked that question, the young man replied, "My life is taken care of. I know where I’m going if I die, so I was not worried to sacrifice." |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #3 It was similar at the Dark Knight murders in Aurora, CO in 2012. About 7 guys died shielding women. Some were only on dates. I suspect that they share a beer together in heaven once a year. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2023-04-13 12:52 |
| #2 a college dropout, divorced former Marine who was unemployed and living with his mother. No indicators there. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2023-04-13 08:05 |
| #1 As soon as shots began booming through the bar, he and about seven other young men grabbed as many people as they could and pushed them under a pool table for cover. Then they piled their own bodies over them to protect them from the hail of gunfire. One woman, who was celebrating her 21st birthday at the bar that night, told reporters afterward, "There were multiple men who got on their knees and pretty much blocked all of us with their back toward the shooter, ready to take a bullet for any single one of us." "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends." John 15:13 |
| Posted by: Slats Snore5077 2023-04-13 06:42 |