As more information has become available about the victims of the horrific shooting at an Aurora, Colo., movie theater last week, three men who died are being touted as romantic heroes of a sort.
According to various reports, Jonathan Blunk, 26, a father of two small children, died protecting girlfriend Jansen Young. Alex Teves, 24, pushed Amanda Lindgren out of the line of fire. And Matt McQuinn, 27, covered girlfriend Samantha Yowler, who took a bullet to the knee. (Reports indicate that Yowler’s brother, Nick, also used his body to protect his sister.)
One Wall Street Journal editor has ticked off a lot of people. On Tuesday evening, James Taranto, a Wall Street Journal columnist and editor of the WSJ’s editorial page, Opinion Journal.com, tweeted the following: “I hope the girls whose boyfriends died to save them were worthy of the sacrifice.”
Upon reading that, I clapped my hand to my forehead. I imagine some of you did the same.
The young men in question, either by instinct or by choice, threw their bodies on top of these girls to save their lives. Clearly, they believed the young women in question were worthy of the sacrifice.