San Bernardino Victim Died After Shielding Co-Worker and Saving Her Life: 'I Got You'

[Elmergantry]

Source: People

San Bernardino shooting victim Shannon Johnson used his body to shield co-worker Denise Peraza as bullets started flying on Wednesday, CNN reports. Johnson was one of the 14 people who died in the attack, but Peraza lived and is now able to share the details of Johnson's heroic actions.


Read more: http://www.people.com/article/san-bernardino-victim-shannon-johnson-shielded-survivor-denise-peraza

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The definition of a man. RIP

[narnian60]

1. Oh, wow.

Hero personified.

[JonLeibowitz]

2. Could you expound on what you mean by this statement?

The definition of a man.

Thanks in advance.

[Elmergantry]

3. Real Men should be life protectors

Not life takers like Farook.


Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one's life for one's friends. John 15:13

[JonLeibowitz]

10. Ah. It just seems like dangerous language when it was a man protecting a woman in this case

[Elmergantry]

14. Why would that be "dangerous language"?

You know if I was on the Titanic, I would want the women and children first on the lifeboat. I will take the cold drink.

I guess that makes me a bad person...

[JonLeibowitz]

15. That does not make you a bad person.

But it is wrong to make the true measure of a man be whether he sacrifices his life for a woman. Now, it is honorable to sacrifice one's life for another, but a woman's life is no more valuable than a man's. Equality. The optics of saying that the definition of a man is sacrificing his life for a woman's are pretty bad.

There is a good case to be made for always sacrificing one's life for children (of either sex), I will grant.

[Elmergantry]

17. Well I can agree

That I would not think less of any guy who bolted for the door.

[7962]

6. Well that didnt take long

[uppityperson]

4. The definition of a selfless person. RIP

[mountain grammy]

5. When I hear people yapping that everyone should have a gun to get the

bad guy with the gun. Here's a man without a gun, but with the courage to save another's life, like the young teacher in Sandy Hook. I wonder if the blowhards wanting everyone to be armed would have a tiny ounce of such courage.

RIP, Shannon Johnson.

[flamingdem]

9. Well said nt

[7962]

7. That man was from here in Ga not far from me

Everyone said he was a really nice guy

[flamingdem]

8. Totally heartbreaking, what a wonderful man

[Hekate]

11. Well that broke through the numbness I now feel at these events....

[patsimp]

12. here is a hero

[montana_hazeleyes]

13. What a wonderful person he was to do this.

I hope it helps to bring a little comfort to all his family and friends and all who knew him to know of his heroic act to save another's life.

Ms Peraza will forever be bonded to him and keep him in her heart.

[flamingdem]

16. Hours later and am still thinking about this person

somehow what he did balances the horror.