They say real heroes don’t wear capes—they wear uniforms. And at Old Dominion University, that truth showed up in spades when Army ROTC cadets squared off against Islamic terrorism right in their own classroom. A terrorist stormed into Constant Hall, gun in hand, shouting a phrase we’ve all heard from too many radical killers. Unlike the coddled snowflakes on campus whining about pronoun usage, these young Americans sprang into action. They didn’t run. They didn’t hide. They fought back.
While the rest of the country wrings its hands and worries about “offending” anyone, the ROTC instructor and cadets showed what it looks like when men and women are ready to stand up for their country. This terrorist thought he could walk into a class, open fire, and make headlines. What happened instead? He met Americans who weren’t paralyzed by fear. He picked the wrong classroom.
It’s no shock the mainstream media barely whispered about the bravery on display. Liberals would rather push their anti-gun, anti-military, anti-American narrative than celebrate the courage of our young warriors. If this had been another “gun-free zone” disaster, the left would be salivating, pushing for more restrictions and blaming law-abiding citizens. When our military rises to the challenge, though, they stay silent—and complicit.
Maybe some on the left could learn a thing or two from these cadets. That’s right—while progressives are busy handing out safe spaces and foreign aid to anyone willing to undermine America, these future officers were busy saving lives. The globalists and open-borders crowd want to water down our defenses and apologize for our values. But when the bullets started flying, it was the old-fashioned American spirit that put an end to the threat.
For every woke academic who thinks courage is just a microaggression, maybe try taking a real stand like these cadets. The lesson here is simple: you don’t negotiate with evil. You defeat it. Maybe it’s time the rest of this country remembered that.
Source: Redstate
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