Sipsey Street Irregulars: LAX survivor: 'I just prayed'--the only option available in 'gun free' zones

Monday, November 4, 2013

LAX survivor: 'I just prayed'--the only option available in 'gun free' zones

Ironically, the USA Today article is titled: "Police: LAX shooting could have been far worse" (presumably because the shooter had a scary semi-automatic rifle and 150 rounds of ammunition). Perhaps that's true--perhaps it could have been. It could also, though, have been far better had the shooter not had the luxury of waiting for police to finally arrive and shoot him four times--had the real "first responders" not been stripped of the option of a response somewhat more direct than prayer. The intent here is not to mock the power of prayer to accomplish great things, but to illustrate the evil of those who would require us to seek divine assistance as our only chance of survival.

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BuckRedstone said...: We've seen videos of Syrian rebels using the failed shooting tactic spray and pray numerous times in their war but now Americans in so called gun free zones who are in the line of fire have only one alternative, lay and pray. Maybe there'll be a day when we can protect ourselves and our loved ones anywhere in the home of the free and the land of the brave!; November 4, 2013 at 6:43 AM
AJ said...: It wasn't an AR, it was a Mini-14.; November 4, 2013 at 9:57 AM
Parasquid said...: What scares me the most is all the people running away. What happened to the people that are not afraid to confront back? I know it is a gun, but at some point, the shooter has his back to some. Too easy to grapple and take down these wanna be killers. Welcome to the "pussyfication" of America.; November 4, 2013 at 8:28 PM
Anonymous said...: @Parasquid,
Kindly seal your pie hole and cease badmouthing the people at LAX. Only a total idiot berates someone else for how they acted/reacted in a situation IN WHICH THEY HAVE NEVER FOUND THEMSELVES!!!! Unless you have found yourself in a given situation, you truly have NO FREAKING IDEA how you would react. You know how you HOPE you would react. You know how you WOULD PREFER to react when the fecal material impacts the wind machine. But until you are in a given situation, you do not AND CAN NOT know how you would react.; November 4, 2013 at 10:51 PM
Anonymous said...: Badcyborg, ummm I've had a gun stuck right to my skull....and I chose to fight BECAUSE if I am to meet my maker in just such a situation, then it will not be as a result of just cowering in fear until the trigger is pulled.

I hear what you are saying and there is some merit in it, but you gotta understand, there are people like me (never military and not LEI) who HAVE been in just those kinds of situations and DID actually confront the threat.

Is it ok with you if I call out the rampant pussification of this country? Do I have standing , enough standing, to say so? Am I allowed, by you, to ask the same questions asked above? Am I qualified enough or will you move the goal posts now?

Note homie, Todd Beamer never before faced Islamic zealots hijacking an airplane - but he made the decision to fight back.

We DO need to put an end to the pussification of this country. We start by calling the pussies the pussies that they ARE! Truth might hurt sometimes, but then, that pain doesn't change the truth itself and trying to spin away the pain doesn't either.

While a patriot may retreat in order to regroup as a matter of tactical advantage seeking, pussies climb over children trying to save their own pussified skins.

I know this much, I'd rather die taking a bullet standing in front of a child than live the rest of my life knowing a child got shot because they were behind me trying to run out the door. Et tu?; November 5, 2013 at 4:34 PM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

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