The Instapundit lead me to this story that I never recalled hearing but think need repeating. Often.

In 1998 when Kip Kinkel decided to take out his anger at the world on his fellow classmates, it wasn’t the Springfield SWAT team that ended the killing spree. It was one 17 year old Boy Scout, his brother and two friends who heard the sound of a rifle dry-fire and decided to tackle the shooter. Oh, and the 17 year old had been shot in the chest before he made his move.

In 2001, “Our first victory in the war on terror”, as our President calls it, was not done by our government. It was done by several airline passengers who decided that it was better to plow into a field in Pennsylvania than into an occupied office building in Washington or New York.

2003 brings us some local heros who restrained a knife welding assailant intent on killing their Spanish teacher.

In 2005 when FEMA couldn’t find its ass form its elbow, a kid from the ghetto found a bus, decided now was the time to learn to drive it, picked up a bus load of refugees, and managed to get to Houston’s Astrodome hours ahead of the Government convoy.

Its good to know when the excrement hits the turbine that Americans will still stand up and do whats right, in spite of our overtly paternalistic government, lousy educational system, and pundit class that teaches us to all be victims.