Reply #38: Are you for real?

[jwlashta]

I'm not American, nor have I done any research into the laws you speak of, but I can guarantee that those laws pertain only to incidents in which you would not be putting yourself in harms way. If an individual burst into a bank with a semi-automatic and demanded everyone to get down, I'm sure you would drop like anyone else. It would be innane to expect you or anyone to challenge the person with a gun or some crazed person with a knife. Any laws that expect individuals to put themselves in harms way to help another would run counter to the principles of freedom of life and liberty.

By the way, no one intervened in the actual stabbing incident. Everyone got the hell off the bus, including Caton. The bus driver disabled the bus so the maniac couldn't get away, and some people held the door closed so he couldn't escape. No one tried to stop this man physically from stabbing or beheading the victim.