{"id":30967,"date":"2012-07-21T13:16:33","date_gmt":"2012-07-21T17:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=30967"},"modified":"2012-07-21T15:36:40","modified_gmt":"2012-07-21T19:36:40","slug":"if-only","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=30967","title":{"rendered":"If Only…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Personal preface: I don’t watch TV news or the talking heads so I don’t share Jonn’s frustrations about the coverage of the Aurora shooting. I assumed it would be crap and ignored it. And the anti-gun rhetoric <\/a>was easily foreseeable and as easily dismissed.<\/p>\n

Nope! Events like Flight 93 and “Let’s Roll!” kept intruding. Or Mr. Williams <\/a>decision to take action seems extraordinarily fitting.<\/p>\n

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So I’m thinking that guns were peripheral (NOT trivial!) elements in that theater. I’ll posit that what was missing was a Sheepdog?<\/p>\n

Here is how the sheep and the sheepdog think differently.\u00a0The sheep pretend the wolf will never come, but the sheepdog lives for that day.<\/strong>\u00a0After the attacks on September 11, 2001, most of the sheep, that is, most citizens in America said, “Thank God I wasn’t on one of those planes.” The sheepdogs, the warriors, said, “Dear God, I wish I could have been on one of those planes. Maybe I could have made a difference.” When you are truly transformed into a warrior and have truly invested yourself into warriorhood, you want to be there. You want to be able to make a difference.<\/em>\u00a0 Lt. Colonel Grossman<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If only there had been just one person with that mind set?<\/p>\n

YMMV<\/p>\n

Update: See Russ’s post above. I can’t\/won’t disagree with his emphasis, but…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Personal preface: I don’t watch TV news or the talking heads so I don’t share Jonn’s … If Only…<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,87,82,156],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geezer-alert","category-general-whackos","category-gun-grabbing-fascists","category-guns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}