"Plugging the shooter in an embarrassing way and releasing the footage immediately disincentivized future shooters instead of incentivizing them."
Much like how being mobbed by passengers and crew has turned aircraft terrorism into an exercise in embarrassment for the perpetrators since 9/11. And it shows in the rarity of such attacks sin…
"Plugging the shooter in an embarrassing way and releasing the footage immediately disincentivized future shooters instead of incentivizing them."
Much like how being mobbed by passengers and crew has turned aircraft terrorism into an exercise in embarrassment for the perpetrators since 9/11. And it shows in the rarity of such attacks since then. I assert that this willingness to defend ourselves has done more to protect us when we fly than the TSA's intrusions.
We seem to think that we ordinary folks shouldn't have to concern ourselves with self-defense like this, since we are not "qualified professionals" in that aspect of life and might get it wrong*. We have to understand that there may come a time where - right or wrong - we are the only ones available with any answer to deliver.
Perhaps the most crazy thing about 9/11 is it almost completely stopped airplane hijacking’s.
Whether or not it affected anyone’s likelihood of actually hijacking - people default to “the next 9/11”. If it’s just some people holding their plane hostage to get some political support like earlier ones, who cares enough to act? If it’s 9/11, it’s literally a worst case scenario where even losing your life trying to stop them is worth it (the Pennsylvania flight).
Peoples willingness to risk extreme harm to stop hijackers shot up tenfold, and it won’t go back down for decades.
"Plugging the shooter in an embarrassing way and releasing the footage immediately disincentivized future shooters instead of incentivizing them."
Much like how being mobbed by passengers and crew has turned aircraft terrorism into an exercise in embarrassment for the perpetrators since 9/11. And it shows in the rarity of such attacks since then. I assert that this willingness to defend ourselves has done more to protect us when we fly than the TSA's intrusions.
We seem to think that we ordinary folks shouldn't have to concern ourselves with self-defense like this, since we are not "qualified professionals" in that aspect of life and might get it wrong*. We have to understand that there may come a time where - right or wrong - we are the only ones available with any answer to deliver.
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* this thinking is another example of what I call "the problem behind the problems" ... https://thenayborhood.substack.com/p/cutting-to-the-chase
Perhaps the most crazy thing about 9/11 is it almost completely stopped airplane hijacking’s.
Whether or not it affected anyone’s likelihood of actually hijacking - people default to “the next 9/11”. If it’s just some people holding their plane hostage to get some political support like earlier ones, who cares enough to act? If it’s 9/11, it’s literally a worst case scenario where even losing your life trying to stop them is worth it (the Pennsylvania flight).
Peoples willingness to risk extreme harm to stop hijackers shot up tenfold, and it won’t go back down for decades.