{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "Gunman Killed Trying to Rob Ex-Reporters Lynne Russell and Chuck de Caro in Albuquerque", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/123029554548/", "html": "Gunman Killed Trying to Rob Ex-Reporters Lynne Russell and Chuck de Caro in Albuquerque\n

rowan-canyon:

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kontextmaschine:

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She said she offered to search \nher purse for something of value to hand over to the gunman \u2014 and \nslipped her gun into the purse, which she then handed to her husband.

\u201c\u2018Is there anything in here we can give him?\u2019\u201d Russell said she asked. \u201cChuck said, \u2018Oh, yes, there is.\u2019\u201d

Holy shit. Journalists?

De Caro \u2014 a former investigative reporter, Special Forces member and military expert\u2026

Russell \u2014 herself a licensed private investigator and former Fulton \nCounty, Georgia, sheriff\u2019s deputy with two martial arts black belts\u2026

Oh. Well, maybe they do still make them like they used to.

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And even with all that military training and even with the drop on the robber, de Caro got hit three times in the shootout. If one of those slugs went a few inches awry, this would be written up as a very different story and would fit a very different narrative….

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Nah you\u2019re missing the point, the glory wasn\u2019t in him winning the fight, the glory was in him joining the fight. If he was killed - feh! What of it? Death in combat is the highest honor a human can give or receive. Human lives aren\u2019t valuable as ends in themselves but as means to generate correct meaning, and courage is correct meaning. If you preserve your life by avoiding the creation of correct meaning, what\u2019s the point in it?

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