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homebiscuit · 04-01-2023, 07:43 PM

Usually, I tuck stories into existing treads, but I think this well-written article deserves its own venue.

In Nashville shooting, police officers were heroes. But no one wants to be a hero anymore. (msn.com)

Take a good look at Nashville police officers Rex Engelbert and Michael Collazo working their way quickly and methodically toward the shooter at Covenant School on Monday morning.

That is valor uncommon in our world today: Two men leading other men to something terrible around one of those corners at that tidy private school.

In the police body camera footage you see training take charge to stop a killer. The officers come upon a tiny body in the hallway and run past understanding with certainty now what they’ll soon confront.

And still they go on...

Today Engelbert and Collazo are hailed as “heroes,” and no one is doubting their worthiness. They showed extraordinary courage putting their lives at risk.

Take a good look because men and women like that are becoming less common in our country as it is torn apart by squalid infighting and deeply divided political outlooks.

Young Americans today no longer want to sign up to protect their communities or their country...