Lafayette Shooting - Further

Later it emerged that two teachers who had been in the theatre had raised the alarm and one had even thrown herself in front of the shooter to save her friend.

Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal told a press conference he had talked to the teachers, whom he described as heroes.

“Even though she was shot in the leg, she had the presence of mind to pull the fire alarm to help save other lives,” he said.

“Now, I think as we learn more about the details tonight, we are going to hear about other acts of selfless heroism of people trying to help each other and trying to save other lives.”

Jindal commended the first respondents, who he said “ran towards the shots fired, towards danger”.

“This is a time for us to come together,” said Jindal. “What we can do now is pray.”

  The Guardian

Pray? That's your answer? "Selfless heroism" and prayer?

Looks like this Onion faux-report from last year pegged it:

ISLA VISTA, CA—In the days following a violent rampage in southern California in which a lone attacker killed seven individuals, including himself, and seriously injured over a dozen others, citizens living in the only country where this kind of mass killing routinely occurs reportedly concluded Tuesday that there was no way to prevent the massacre from taking place. “This was a terrible tragedy, but sometimes these things just happen and there’s nothing anyone can do to stop them,” said North Carolina resident Samuel Wipper, echoing sentiments expressed by tens of millions of individuals who reside in a nation where over half of the world’s deadliest mass shootings have occurred in the past 50 years and whose citizens are 20 times more likely to die of gun violence than those of other developed nations. “It’s a shame, but what can we do? There really wasn’t anything that was going to keep this guy from snapping and killing a lot of people if that’s what he really wanted.” At press time, residents of the only economically advanced nation in the world where roughly two mass shootings have occurred every month for the past five years were referring to themselves and their situation as “helpless.”

  The Onion