Gunman Killed Trying to Rob Ex-Reporters Lynne Russell and Chuck de Caro in Albuquerque
She said she offered to search her purse for something of value to hand over to the gunman — and slipped her gun into the purse, which she then handed to her husband.
“‘Is there anything in here we can give him?’” Russell said she asked. “Chuck said, ‘Oh, yes, there is.’”
Holy shit. Journalists?
De Caro — a former investigative reporter, Special Forces member and military expert…
Russell — herself a licensed private investigator and former Fulton County, Georgia, sheriff’s deputy with two martial arts black belts…
Oh. Well, maybe they do still make them like they used to.
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….
Nah you’re missing the point, the glory wasn’t 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’t 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’s the point in it?