[rant]pbandjelly wrote:G19'er: I am truly sorry to hear that.
to exemplify your stance, check out the vid on CNN.com of the 91yr old vet being car-jacked.
some people shouldn't have been born.
Unfortunately, that video also demonstrated the coward mentality of most of the public at large. What is even more reprehensible than the assailant doing this is that there were 5 witnesses standing there doing nothing to assist the man. The unfortunate reality of our society is that people are raised to be cowards who are not willing to lift a hand to assist someone who is being assaulted or killed. The schools teach our children to not respond to aggression and punish them if they fight back or take up for their friends. Our kids are taught to simply tough it out when bullies continually victimize and beat them. As adults we are told to just hand over your possessions to a robber, don't fight back if you are being sexually assaulted, don't raise a hand against an aggressor and other absolute bull. It is sickening to see this type of thing because it only reminds me how pathetic the human race is becoming and how successful the powers that be have been in creating a society of sheep just waiting to be slaughtered.
Thank goodness I don't allow my kids to go to public school and become indoctrinated into a society that holds values that are antithetical to being human. And thank goodness that my parents did raise me to stand up for myself and for others when something like this happens. I have witnessed an elderly man being beaten as a result of road rage and I did not drive by and allow it to continue and I know that I would not have stood by and allowed this to pass either without doing something to stop it, armed or not.
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