These were the words of James Shaw Jr. the young man who stopped a heavily armed individual who came locked and loaded with an AR 15 semi- automatic assault rifle to simply kill for no other reason than he felt like it. What does it say about an individual who wakes up and decides that today he wanted to harm or kill someone simply because of WHAT?
WHAT could it be that goes on in the minds of individuals who decide to do so heinous, immoral and inhumane acts? I think I answered my question in my question. Inhumanity. Or a lack of humanity. I think in a world with such inhumane acts going on, the reasonable decision that one would come up with, is that we are living in the days where humanity is no longer respected or valued.
Hence the reason for the importance of the I am human movement to take off and be successful. With the recent amount of school shootings and pedestrians being run down in the streets, it saddens me sometimes to think that people could do such evil things. It was the words of James Shaw Jr.” I am not a hero”. That gave me a little more hope in humanity a man simply wanted to live another day and was forced to fight to leave.
A young man minding his own business, not suspecting that when he woke up that morning, that he would be in a fight for his life. Two men wake up, and one decides I want to kill someone. The other not knowing he would have to decide not to be killed.
This is becoming to common in our society these days. The value of human of life has to be valued by all humans in order to preserve it.
Self-preservation is a natural defense mechanism to prevent anyone or any thing from harming you. But without it you have no value of other’s lives. If you don’t think that your life is valuable you can’t see any value in anyone else’s. James Shaw Jr. shows humanity in its greatest form by fighting to save his own life.
Doing what comes naturally for survival, he did what we all wish we had the courage and the strength to do if faced with the same situation, That was survive.
So kudos to you James Shaw Jr. for being the humanitarian, who merely wanted to live and not have your life taken by a inhumane individual. Who has no love for life, for himself or others.
So you chose to fight as we all must do in this ever-changing world, living among individuals whose lack of humanity is running rampant.
Smoke that over.
#IamHumanRu