Glenn K. Beaton: When the shooting starts, would you go in? | AspenTimes.com

Glenn K. Beaton: When the shooting starts, would you go in? | AspenTimes.com:
"Armed sheriff's deputies appeared on the scene of the recent school massacre in Florida while kids were still being murdered inside.
But the deputies failed to storm the building to apprehend the killer, to rescue the assaulted, to stop the bleeding and to comfort the dying.
They failed to do their jobs.
Instead, they cowered behind their patrol cars waiting for, well, apparently waiting for the shooting to stop.
Some 150 bullets and 17 lives later, it finally did and the killer walked away.
Only then did the deputies enter the building.
...That issue is this. 
What would you do if you happened past a school and heard shooting and screaming inside? 
Assume you're unarmed.

• If you run inside to help, the most likely outcome is that you accomplish nothing.
• The second-most likely outcome is that you add yourself to the body count.
• But the third-most likely outcome is that you save a kid, perhaps in the course of dying yourself.
• The fourth and least-likely outcome is that you save many kids by overcoming the killer.

Of those possible outcomes, only the last two — the least likely ones — are good ones.
The odds are against heroes.
That's why we heroize them.
Unfortunately for heroes but fortunately for the rest of us, heroes have no time to calculate those long odds against them.
...Like you, I would instead act instinctively with my heart I hope my heart would tell me to do what I should do — what I must do. 
I hope I would do my job..."
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