Question away. He took on an armed man, disarmed him, and dropped him, leading others to take him out.
If that ain't manhood, I've never seen it.
Apparently he was there with his wife and daughter and friends.
For the drag show that was on that night.
Imagine! A straight person doing that! (oh wait, LOTS of straight people go to Gay clubs, cause they usually - used to be - safer than regular clubs)
Good on this guy, for lots of stuff.
And as a bonus, he actually used the proper pronouns for the Drag performer when he got her to help take this shooter down.
Sadly his daughter's boyfriend was killed, and two of his friends shot, his daughter broke her knee.
Richard M. Fierro, who served for 15 years in the military, was at the nightclub in Colorado Springs with his family when the gunman opened fire. “I just knew I had to take him down,” he said.
www.nytimes.com
"Eventually, he was freed. He went to the hospital with his wife and daughter, who had only minor injuries. His friends were there, and are still there, in much more serious condition. They were all alive. But his daughter’s boyfriend was nowhere to be found. In the chaos they had lost him. They drove back to the club, searching for him, they circled familiar streets, hoping they would find him walking home. But there was nothing.
The family got a call late Sunday from his mother. He had died in the shooting.
When Mr. Fierro heard, he said, he held his daughter and cried.
In part he cried because he knew what lay ahead. The families of the dead, the people who were shot, had now been in war, like he had. They would struggle like he and so many of his combat buddies had. They would ache with misplaced vigilance, they would lash out in anger, never be able to scratch the itch of fear, be torn by the longing to forget and the urge to always remember.
“My little girl, she screamed and I was crying with her,” he said. “Driving home from the hospital I told them, ‘Look, I’ve gone through this before, and down range, when this happens, you just get out on the next patrol. You need to get it out of your mind.’ That is how you cured it. You cured it by doing more. Eventually you get home safe. But here I worry there is no next patrol. It is harder to cure. You are already home.”"
This guy is a hero... and my heart breaks for his family and their loss.
