Gohmert: ‘I wish to God’ Connecticut principal had an M4 assault rifle

[caseymoz]

110. What she did, that's called fight.

Yes, by comparison, charging the shooter is the more natural thing to do.

Maybe it's the term "fight or flight that confused you. This is a term neuro-biologists to describe what out sympathetic nervous system pushes us to do in a stressful situation. Shooting is not "fight" in a primal sense. It's a trained skill.

I didn't say what soldiers do is irrelevant. Where the hell did you get that? What soldiers do is a skill. You can't just pick up a gun, spend a few hours at the shooting range, and do it.

Reread what I wrote, because almost all of it seems have gotten by you. To perform with any reliability under combat stress you have to have a lot of training, (and some experience). To shoot straight when you're being shot at takes a even more training, much more than just target practice.

If you reread it, you'd see that I wrote this:

"Soldiers have to train in a unit, with group reinforcement, to learn how to hold a position and return fire. And in their first encounter with fire, they'll freeze."

How did you read that and think I was saying what soldiers do is irrelevant?

In case this is unclear, I meant they learn the skill of standing under fire from group reinforcement. They can carry that into individual action, but that's the way the skill is trained into them.

I'm saying it takes group reinforcement (or some other technique) to learn to overcome your natural instincts in a shooting. You can also freeze undecided between fight and flight, and that's usually what happens in battle with green units.

(BTW, this is irrelevant, because I've said the fight or flight instincts explained her mode of heroism either way: but there's been no verification yet that she died charging anybody. It's still a rumor. Who saw it? Who in that room survived, and how? How were they out of sight and still in a position to see her?

It's possible that she did it, but you should really use verified facts when you try to picture how people really behave in such a situations. We try to turn horror stories into hero stories as quickly as possible. We do it so we can stand the grief of meaningless killing. That doesn't mean the hero stories are what usually happen.)