Of Heroes And Cowards
How The Heroism of The Nashville MPD Shows Us The Criminal Cowardice of The Uvalde, Texas PD
If you haven’t seen it yet, I invite you to watch The Metro Nashville Police Department —MNPD— in action yesterday at Covenant Christian School (may not be SFW!).
Note that at circa 1:30 on the bodycam tape we hear [gun shots] then officers yelling:
“shots fired…shots fired…go!…go!! [more shots fired] right!, go right… post an LPDB up!, post an LPDB up!….[more gunshots only much louder]…GO!… RIGHT!”
The MNPD officers (some in plain clothes) are then clearly seen running faster and toward the gunfire. This is what heroic men, trying to spare the lives of an unknown number of children, do when given the opportunity, they act with heroic courage. In an ultimate act of charity, they run toward the violence, not knowing or caring what danger they may soon be faced with.
Because there are children’s lives at risk.
Innocent, tender, young lives. Lives in need of men to save them.
The heroes, without donning any “armor” or “shields” sprint toward lethal gunfire, confront the now seen shooter and with one well trained shot, neutralize a shooter they do not know but they knew it was armed and had been firing rounds.
Near rooms formerly filled with children and teachers.
“STAY DOWN!! DON’T MOVE!! STAY DOWN!!!”
This is shouted at the gunman (woman) in an effort to save her life, an effort that failed but nonetheless, bears the same mantle of heroic charity as the heroes well executed dash to the scene. Per the Daily Mail…
By 10.27am, she was dead, having been struck down by Officers Rex Englebert and Michael Collazo.
The footage shows how the officers strategically checked classrooms looking for the shooter before finding her on a second floor atrium, firing in their direction as part of her suicide-by-cop plan.
She was no match for Officer Englebert, a 27-year-old, four-year veteran of the force who struck her down immediately with four shots from his semi-automatic weapon.
Officer Collazo, a nine-year veteran of the force, approached with a handgun next, firing another four shots while Hale flailed on the ground, before approaching her body and stripping it of weapons. [emphasis mine]
The article doesn’t mention the other 5 or 6 men who courageously were with Englebert and Collazo; who went room by “clear[ed]!” room, in search of Hale.
“Rifle first…rifle first! you! blue, take point!”
And the cop in the blue polo shirt did just that and they did it with precision yet with a clear sense of urgency, because that’s what heroes do.
Requiem æternam dona ei, Domine℟. Et lux perpetua luceat ei:℣. Requiescat in pace.℟. Amen.
I love these men and I don’t know them, but I love them. This is what we all wanted for the children of Uvalde Texas. What we all assumed that men who swear oaths to “protect and serve” take those oaths to begin with. If you don’t ‘membah, this is what those cowards of the Uvalde Texas PD did in a nearly identical situation. I’ve keyed the video so you can see what happens when a second volley of gunshots is heard.
These cowards ran away for the comfort and protection of a CMU constructed hallway and there they waited for almost 70 minutes while more children are being slaughtered 70 feet away.
These are the feckless, cowardly men who are responsible for today’s crisis in fatherhood, marriage and yes, directly responsible for some of the children’s lives lost at Uvalde. These cowards run from other “deadly fire” that comes in the form of “unplanned” pregnancies and difficult marriages with children involved. Innocent children who are innocently relying on these men to be their guardian angels on earth, their heroes, but alas, the only heroes these types of men become are to the bank account holders of strumpets on Only Fans.
And why is this? Because of the paradox that is actually practicing the Christian faith in this fallen world we find ourselves immersed in. The modern Boobus Americanus Catholicus has lost his Christian conviction to “seek ye therefore first the Kingdom of God…and be not solicitous for the morrow” and thus reaps the sinful rewards of sloth and lust; while the courageous man prays and trusts that God is at his side and charges into the battle and the difficult path of virtue, whose reward may be death, but through that death, life. As Chesterton put it…
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die. "He that will lose his life, the same shall save it," is not a piece of mysticism for saints and heroes. It is a piece of everyday advice for [cops], sailors or mountaineers. It might be printed in an Alpine guide or a drill book. This paradox is the whole principle of courage; even of quite earthly or quite brutal courage. He must not merely wait for death, for then he will be a suicide, and will not escape. He must seek his life in a spirit of furious indifference to it; he must desire life like water and yet drink death like wine. No philosopher, I fancy, has ever expressed this romantic riddle with adequate lucidity, and I certainly have not done so. But Christianity has done more: it has marked the limits of it in the awful graves of the suicide and the hero, showing the distance between him who dies for the sake of living and him who dies for the sake of dying. And it has held up ever since above the European lances the banner of the mystery of chivalry: the Christian courage, which is a disdain of death; not the Chinese courage, which is a disdain of life.
Outside of the horror show that is CNN, I will wager you that we will not see the “men” of Uvalde Texas’s PD being interviewed and asked to render their analysis of the MNPD’s selfless acts of heroism and that’s not because the pedo-cult-of-death brass at CNN haven’t already thought to air such an atrocity but rather the HD harlots at the Omni Hotel in Atlanta, cowards all, do not wish to expose their Potemkin TV village to a consideration of heroes and heroism.
Because being heroic and defending life in the face of death, requires Faith, Hope and Charity and you know who the author of those are.
Nota Bene: I am working on a companion piece to this one about the demonic forces that drove Audrey Elizabeth Hale to murderous madness. You can catch the Talk radio version of that on the highlight reel from today and on tomorrow’s Mike Church Show on The CRUSADE Channel, here.
Thanks, Buck!
Great analysis. Spot on.