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American Hero

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Ed Morrissey at Hot Air writes about a man whose courage defies belief:

Law enforcement officials have already refused to say the name of the dead perpetrator of yesterday’ shooting massacre in Oregon. Why not, the Daily Beast’s Michael Daly proposes, talk about the hero rather than the zero?

Forget the 26-year-old zero who murdered 10 innocents at Umpqua Community College on Thursday morning.

The one to remember is 30-year-old Chris Mintz, the student and Army vet who was shot at least five times while charging straight at the gunman in an effort to save others.

Mintz did so on the sixth birthday of his son, Tyrik.

“It’s my son’s birthday, it’s my son’s birthday,” he was heard saying as he lay wounded.

Mintz moved to Oregon to get accreditation as a fitness trainer. Fortunate to be alive, he will instead have to focus on rebuilding his own body; both legs are broken, and he will have to spend months in rehabilitation. Mintz has recovered well enough to speak about the shooting with ABC News, telling people to worry more about the other victims:

 

 

 

Chris Mintz, 30, was shot seven times during the Thursday rampage, but he says his main concern is about the others who were injured.

“I just hope that everyone else is OK,” he told ABC News this morning.

“I’m just worried about everyone else.”

Mintz was not just a person at the wrong place at the wrong time. He heard the gunfire and ran toward the danger, while urging others to run in the opposite direction:

“He ran to the library and pulled the alarms and he was telling people to run, grabbing people, telling them, ‘You just have to go,’” witness Hannah Miles told ABC News.

“He actually ran back towards the building where the shooting was and he ran back into the building and I don’t know what happened to him,” she said of Mintz.

According to witnesses, Mintz told the gunman that it was his son’s birthday after getting shot three times. The gunman responded by shooting him twice more, but couldn’t kill Mintz. His cousin has started a GoFundMe project to help Mintz recover from his wounds, and it has already met its modest target of $10,000. Over the next few days, don’t be surprised to see it head into six figures.

Go here to read the rest.  He makes me proud that I at one time also wore Army green.

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Keith Goode
Keith Goode
Friday, October 2, AD 2015 12:16pm

A true hero. I don’t know if I would do the same thing. I know that perfect love drives out fear, and we are to fear no evil. Christ suffered and died for us, giving us His Life and Love. There is no greater love. I pray that we are faithful unto death.

T. Shaw
T. Shaw
Friday, October 2, AD 2015 1:12pm

Greet them ever with grateful hearts. Envy is a sin. And, I envy this man. I’m not sure I would have been so brave. I feel that I haven’t earned the right to breathe the same air as such men.
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My son is Army active duty, airborne, ranger, infantry CIB, etc. I spent the past three weeks with him. He obtained a TN concealed-carry permit (and training both military and civilian). He carries a .45 cal. Glock, at all times; except when he goes on post. Because the Obama regime and the Army’s lickspittle brass hats can’t allow anybody to shoot the next Major Hajji troop killer, or to upset the jihad.
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These tragedies can only happen in gun-free zones where good people cannot protect the innocent.

Paul W Primavera
Friday, October 2, AD 2015 1:36pm

May God bless Chris Mintz.

Alphatron Shinyskullus
Alphatron Shinyskullus
Friday, October 2, AD 2015 1:45pm

Chris Mintz gives me hope for my state, and my country.

Philip
Philip
Friday, October 2, AD 2015 2:00pm

Hat’s off to the fearless father. Above the call, and nerve of steel. Heart of pure gold!
Retired?….bologna!
Thanks Chris Mintz for your selfless act.
-gofundme is my next internet stop.

bill bannon
bill bannon
Friday, October 2, AD 2015 2:31pm

$200,000 plus right now of $10,000….that is perhaps a first in six hours.

Nate Winchester
Nate Winchester
Friday, October 2, AD 2015 3:26pm

“Hey, kid. For your birthday your Dad got you Batman, by becoming him.”

Philip
Philip
Saturday, October 3, AD 2015 2:38am

bill bannon.
At 2pm it was $173k
This morning it’s over $527k
Nice way to show our appreciation.
Our Country truly needed a hero and this young man fills the role and then some.

Father of seven
Father of seven
Saturday, October 3, AD 2015 2:51am

The pope throws a bread crumb to someone in need and then instantly regrets it and allows his henchmen to distance his “holiness” from a simple act of kindness. This MAN runs into the teeth of evil to save complete strangers and then, after being shot 7 times, says he is just worried about everyone else. Well done, good and faithful servant!

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