Mike Malloy - Armed Good Guys? The Reality Of A Firefight Is A Form Of Madness
Mike reads a powerful letter to the editor in the NYT.
I was seriously wounded in combat as a replacement in the armored infantry in the liberation of France from the Nazis in 1944. I know what it is to be the stranger in a firefight.
Both Donald Trumps claim that an armed bystander could have stopped the rampage in Orlando and the N.R.A. official Wayne LaPierres notion that it takes a good guy with a gun to stop a bad guy with a gun are ridiculous. Combat real combat bears no resemblance to their Hollywood image of war.
The reality of a firefight is a form of madness: shifting silhouettes, dimly perceived, pop of weapons, freezing fear, trembling hands, most of all the stink: sick, sweet odor of blood mixed with the odor of feces and urine, stale sweat, cordite. Who and where is my enemy?
Full letter:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/23/opinion/armed-good-guys-the-reality-of-a-firefight-is-a-form-of-madness.html
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