Quote: (10-01-2015 10:55 PM)Sexus Wrote:
Quote: (10-01-2015 10:45 PM)armint Wrote:
It's been drilled into the millenial generation that there are serious consequences for fighting and hurting someone, no matter the context. So even those who are capable will hold back.
Flight 93 (at least). The corralled students could have bum-rushed the shooter with maximum panic and minimal damage. But probably not one of them had the thought, impetus, or courage to actually do it.
Training for the worst is part of enjoying life at it's best.
Flight 93 happened after the towers were hit. At least some of the people on board knew that if the hijackers weren't stopped they were 100% unquestionably going to die.
Without context like that you get every other recent mass killing that's happened in the US, including the other two 9/11 hijackings. People think they have a shot to get out of the predicament completely unscathed, so they go for it - and even for a tough, trained fighter that means keeping in mind the potential aftermath of "trying to play cowboy" and not getting mixed up in that shit.