Echoing the Easter massacres, though fortunately on a much smaller scale -- a single gunman, a single death -- another attempt to profane the most sacred. Or, more properly, to argue about what is and is not sacred; and to sacralize, in the old way with blood, that which the enemy holds sacred into something sacred for you. The Easter bombings were intended to be like the transformation of Hagia Sophia from basilica into mosque; this, an attempt to transform the day that God passed over the Jews into a day for killing them in the name of a mythical race.
Fortunately, even in California, an armed citizen -- an off-duty Border Patrol officer, by reports -- was there to stop it. And fortunately, in America unlike in Sri Lanka, the enemy sought to do his work with guns instead of bombs. There's not so much you can do with bombs, not even if you are armed and brave. As long as they stick to guns there is a fighting chance.
These attacks are attacks on a particular religion, but they are also attacks on the American ideal of religious liberty: on the idea that it is all right for you to be a different faith from me, that I don't consider it my business just as long as you grant me the same courtesy. The enemy isn't just an enemy of Christians here or Jews there; they are our common enemy insofar as they feel it proper to turn people into blood sacrifices in order to exert control over us.
We must oppose all of this sort because our cause is liberty. Non enim propter gloriam diuivias aut honores pugnamus set propter libertatum: quam nemo bonus nisi simul vita amittit.
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Just normal human antics. Nothing new or surprising to those of us that have become old hands at this Wheel of life.
The (relatively) new aspect is, as Grim said, a nation that wants to let people alone. Free to live by no man's leave, underneath the law. Yeah, it's worth fighting for, using both words and deeds.
There were multiple heroes that day. The woman who died shielding the Rabbi, the combat vet who chased the attacker out to his car, and the Border Patrol agent who probably saved that man.
That combat vet went full "arrrrghhhh." He described it as beast mode. The jerk assassin apparently got a glimpse of his face, dropped his gun, and hightailed it. https://dailycaller.com/2019/04/28/combat-vet-stopped-san-diego-synagogue-shooter/
Others who were there later told him it sounded like four or five people were shouting. He thinks maybe an angel was standing behind him and speaking through his voice. When the shooter ran, he immediately gave chase.
Haha, see you humans can do it when you actually try.
The power to manifest quantum effects via the voice box is an often forgotten technique of warriors and sages.
“When I came around the corner into the lobby area, I saw the individual with a gun, and he fired two rounds. And I yelled at him and I must have yelled very loud, and he looked at me, and I must have had a really mean look on my face or something, because he immediately dropped his weapon and turned and ran. And then I gave chase.”
No, the guy saw a spirit possessing your body as a channel. That's why he dropped his gun, since guns are useless against djinns.
Channeling the manifestation of War and Death is a difficult skill, but it is getting easier over time.
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