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24. Yep. It's easy to go all "RARR ME TOUGH MAN" the day after from a safe distance. (nt)

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In a situation like the Colorado theater, I'd charge the bastard head on. [View all] HopeHoops Jul 2012 OP

This message was self-deleted by its author GarroHorus Jul 2012 #1

I've lived a good life. I'm not afraid to die. It's just the right thing to do. HopeHoops Jul 2012 #32

Not me; I'm a devout coward. The Velveteen Ocelot Jul 2012 #2

I don't think your body would allow you to do that. Loudly Jul 2012 #3

People dive onto live grenades. lapislzi Jul 2012 #8

USS Bausell KansDem Jul 2012 #22

The mind controls the body, not the other way around. Edweird Jul 2012 #50

And you'd probably just be adding one more to the casualty list frazzled Jul 2012 #4

It might serve as enough of a distraction for someone else to tackle him. HopeHoops Jul 2012 #33

The guy was spraying automatic weapon fire amidst smoke and in the dark.He w HuckleB Jul 2012 #71

Before you could do that, you'd need your wits about you. lapislzi Jul 2012 #5

I'd have to add that anyone who is up at midnight blueamy66 Jul 2012 #48

Well, yes as a matter of fact. PCIntern Jul 2012 #67

okay blueamy66 Jul 2012 #77

You don't know what you'd do in a situation like that until you've been in one. backscatter712 Jul 2012 #6

This ^^^^ easttexaslefty Jul 2012 #17

How you train is how you fight. GreenStormCloud Jul 2012 #31

This is not a war zone, and anyone training that much for a situation like this is suspect. Hoyt Jul 2012 #60

Spot on. I'd have go with duck and cover, I think........... wandy Jul 2012 #79

Exactly Bandit Jul 2012 #89

It's not clear how he was stopped jberryhill Jul 2012 #7

According to KUSA TV news AsahinaKimi Jul 2012 #19

He wasn't "stopped", according to eye witnesses. trof Jul 2012 #53

A noble thought. hamsterjill Jul 2012 #9

you too? shanti Jul 2012 #73

That's right. hamsterjill Jul 2012 #88

I believe there are more of us than one might expect... KansDem Jul 2012 #10

That's basically what I was getting at. I'm 49 with a failing body. Last great act of defiance... HopeHoops Jul 2012 #35

Its easy to claim on the internet that you'd be heroic. HooptieWagon Jul 2012 #11

Shit, I've had a good life pinboy3niner Jul 2012 #12

Actually, doing that would just get one on the "victims" list. HopeHoops Jul 2012 #36

They can call me whatever they like when I'm gone pinboy3niner Jul 2012 #40

I charged one of my daughters with my epitaph:"I thought, therefore I was. Now I don't, so I'm not." HopeHoops Jul 2012 #44

I haven't gottten around to planning my epitaph yet pinboy3niner Jul 2012 #45

I came up with that one when I was about 19. HopeHoops Jul 2012 #62

I'd like to think I would do the same (were I single). But I've never been under coalition_unwilling Jul 2012 #13

No one knows how they will pass that test,til it occurs. Swede Jul 2012 #14

That's a good instinct flamingdem Jul 2012 #15

Might be the best course of action. Lizzie Poppet Jul 2012 #16

According to the news... AsahinaKimi Jul 2012 #18

that would be crazy quinnox Jul 2012 #20

Yet none of the victims there stopped him. Because unlike you, they were (fill in the blank) Poll_Blind Jul 2012 #21

Yep. It's easy to go all "RARR ME TOUGH MAN" the day after from a safe distance. (nt) Posteritatis Jul 2012 #24

Yep. nt Chorophyll Jul 2012 #68

I'm a pretty smart guy....but in that situation, I don't think I'd be able to process what was... cbdo2007 Jul 2012 #23

Hope, I don't think any of us know what we'd do in a situation like that. raccoon Jul 2012 #25

Thinking ahead of what you might do in a bad situation is a way of hedgehog Jul 2012 #26

I would draw my own gun and return fire. GreenStormCloud Jul 2012 #27

With more than 100,000 permits to carry in Colorado, rgbecker Jul 2012 #28

It would likely be very difficult in a theater. GreenStormCloud Jul 2012 #30

Many theaters are posted as gun-free zones. sarisataka Jul 2012 #38

There were smoke bombs so I am thinking clear shots would have been a miracle Marrah_G Jul 2012 #76

You are likely correct. GreenStormCloud Jul 2012 #87

Not me. I'm a coward. I'd be heading for the nearest exit. n/t RebelOne Jul 2012 #29

Curiously, from the news reports, he was firing at those who ran away. HopeHoops Jul 2012 #37

Well then, I would be ducking under the seats. n/t RebelOne Jul 2012 #90

Probably wise. I never claimed to be wise. HopeHoops Jul 2012 #94

How would you have even known who the shooter was Blue_Tires Jul 2012 #34

The one with the guns? HopeHoops Jul 2012 #41

You've got better eyesight than I do Blue_Tires Jul 2012 #78

I do have cat-like vision. I still wear glasses, but my night vision is unusually acute. HopeHoops Jul 2012 #80

Watching the eyewitness interviews... sarisataka Jul 2012 #39

Most have not been conditioned to respond with an attack quaker bill Jul 2012 #42

I was at a fireworks display when my (now 21) eldest daughter was an infant. HopeHoops Jul 2012 #43

In today's society resistance to force is not normally supported or taught. eom yawnmaster Jul 2012 #55

Agreed. I wasn't taught it either. I'm just a stubborn bastard who doesn't stand down. HopeHoops Jul 2012 #64

I sure wish you were in a 12-step group I go to, where nobody wants to deal with a disruptive raccoon Jul 2012 #98

It's so easy while sitting at your keyboard, calmly in the daylight, to make claims about what you Nye Bevan Jul 2012 #46

It's a hell of a lot safer, too. nt. Recovered Repug Jul 2012 #47

And the popcorn is cheaper. HopeHoops Jul 2012 #65

That's easy to say. But I'm sure it was pure chaos in there. Arugula Latte Jul 2012 #49

It's easy to say that- doing it the shock of the moment is very different. Marrah_G Jul 2012 #51

I'm with you HopeHoops panader0 Jul 2012 #52

Thanks. You do that while I'm ducking below the seats... trof Jul 2012 #54

Humans have the ability to act against instinct... yawnmaster Jul 2012 #57

Noble thought, but it was dark and there was tear gas. But if it was possible, good. nolabear Jul 2012 #56

i believe you. (n/t) BOG PERSON Jul 2012 #58

You already know if you're the type who could do that. DevonRex Jul 2012 #59

The "type" that might do that wouldn't post about it on the Internet. HuckleB Jul 2012 #72

Yup. DevonRex Jul 2012 #84

That would've been kind of pointless. Daemonaquila Jul 2012 #61

Would you really? Chorophyll Jul 2012 #63

Thought wouldn't factor into it. HopeHoops Jul 2012 #66

Well, now you've given me a straight line. Chorophyll Jul 2012 #69

Oh, that's easy - "I'm tryin' to think but nothin's happenin'." - Curley from The Three Stooges HopeHoops Jul 2012 #70

I would too, or be right there with you. It's happened before. NYC_SKP Jul 2012 #74

Or you might've shit your pants while remaining Guy Whitey Corngood Jul 2012 #75

Perhaps you would. I don't know you, nor do I know if you have ever been shot at. 11 Bravo Jul 2012 #81

Any child is worth more than I am. I've lived a good life. A child has a life before them. HopeHoops Jul 2012 #82

I understand, and I honor your sentiment. I'm merely trying to point out that ... 11 Bravo Jul 2012 #83

Not having heard it, I can't claim it would be a "signature". It's just what we do as humans. HopeHoops Jul 2012 #85

Depends on the "terrain" sylvi Jul 2012 #86

It's easy to say that when you were not there. Odin2005 Jul 2012 #91

I'd give up my life in a heart beat to save a 6 year old madokie Jul 2012 #92

Exactly. HopeHoops Jul 2012 #95

Then you know. DevonRex Jul 2012 #97

Yes, I'm on the back side of my life madokie Jul 2012 #99

your average person (without LEO or military training) datasuspect Jul 2012 #93

you can't even get up to go the bathroom in a crowded theatre... lame54 Jul 2012 #96