Jon Blunk made the ultimate sacrifice for girlfriend Jansen Young in the Colorado Batman massacre. Picture: Facebook Source:Supplied
A TWEET stating "I hope the girls whose boyfriends died to save them were worthy of the sacrifice" in the Batman massacre has caused outrage.
James Taranto, who writes for the Wall Street Journal, made the remark in response to a story in the New York Post stating that three young men used their bodies as shields and took the bullets from deranged gunman James Holmes intended for their loved ones.
Matt McQuinn, 27, Jonathan Blunk, 26, and Alex Teves, 24, were killed in the worst mass shooting in US history at the packed Century 16 theatre in Aurora, Cololardo.
Taranto's comment was met with outrage.
"To their boyfriends, they were. I guess that's what really matters," said Matthew Almont.
"Thank god you weren't there, the Heroes would still save you, but would YOU be worth it? Honestly. Think before you speak," was Carla B's response..
"You sir are disgusting. How dare you!!!," tweeted Tixel Sue.
Dennholt replied; "Wow. Apparently, you have no soul" and "Sounds like a true coward" tweeted Anthony Miller.
"They were loved, therefore it was worth it," said a commenter to @lizardroid's blog.
Taranto himself said one of the more thoughtful answers came from earldean71: "No one is "worthy" of the ultimate sacrifice. The comment struck me as flippant at best. You can do better."
McQuinn dived in front of his girlfriend, Samantha Yowler, also 27, when the gunfire erupted. She was shot in the knee. McQuinn was fatally struck three times.
Jonathan Blunk threw his date, Jansen Young, 21, to the floor, pushing her under the seat.
“Stay down!” he told her, moments before he was shot to death.
“He took a bullet for me,” Young told NBC’s “Today” show.
“He always talked about if he were going to die, he wanted to die a hero,” Blunk’s estranged wife, Chantel Blunk, told NBC News.
Teves, of Phoenix, used his body to cover girlfriend Amanda Lindgren, Teves’ grandmother Rae Iacovelli told The Post.
“He shielded her. He got down on the floor and covered her up,” said Iacovelli, who lives in Barneget, NJ. “She was pulled out from under him. I don’t know who pulled her out.”
Teves, born in Verona, NJ, and raised in Phoenix, had just finished graduate school in Denver. He turned 24 a month ago and had been dating Lindgren for just over a year.
original: http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/world/james-tarantos-batman-sacrifice-tweet-controversy/story-fnd134gw-1226435016340
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