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QuoteNews: http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local_news/article/Two-wounded-in-theater-shooting-4122668.php
This one was stopped dead in it's tracks by an armed off-duty police officer, before the shooter could do much damage.
A lesson for armed protection, over unarmed massacre?
I wonder why the big names in national media aren't covering this incident? Perhaps because almost nothing happened, thanks to an armed citizen.
On an average day in the USA there are over 30 real murders committed with guns. The national media fail to cover most of those too.
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The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one.
The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one.
Second, this wasn't a shooting that targeted a theater, it sounds a lot more like the run-of-the-mill gun violence that happens multitudes of times every day and is so pervasive that only local media cover it. The shooting began in a nearby China Garden, then continued into the parking lot and eventually the theater. Not at all the same as the Aurora incident. Does the San Antonio news cover every shooting in Atlanta? Does it at least cover those that happen near a shopping mall, like out in the parking lot or on a nearby street? Of course not.
Lessons? If you shoot at a police car you'll attract some attention? If you actually plan to target a theater, don't come in through the main entrance where security is stationed?
Good job by the cop, who was "off duty" but it seems was working a second job as security detail. That is common practice around here.
One aside that is perhaps interesting. In my city, a couple of years ago, an off-duty cop (who happened to be a friend of the family) was working security at a grocery store when she was attacked by a guy who used a butcher knife he got from the store. She suffered critical injuries and survived only thanks to an ER nurse who was shopping, and the fact that the store was just down the street from the hospital so she was able to be attended to very quickly. Here is the interesting thing: her police-department sponsored health insurance refused to pay for any of her medical costs, because they were sustained while she was working at a non-police-department job. Of course everyone who works these second jobs as security just assumes their work-sponsored medical insurance will cover them, but that is not the case. Friends spent about a year holding fund raisers, and I don't know if that covered all her bills, but I suspect not. Four months in the hospital, and another almost a year in a rehab center learning how to walk and hold a spoon all over again, adds up to pretty hefty bills. She is back on the force now, after a 2 1/2 year "vacation".
Don
Tolerance is the cost we must pay for our adventure in liberty. (Dworkin, 1996)
“Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.” (Yeats)
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