ANOTHER SCHOOL/PUBLIC SHOOTING

[HairOfTheDog]

The word hero gets thrown around a lot these days but that man is a true hero. He risked his life to save others. If it wasn't for him many more would have died.

A journalist started a GoFundMe account for him, it will pay for his daughter's education. The goal is $60 grand. In 12 hours time $57,661 has been raised.

Yeah, I agree.

You can tell from his interviews that James Shaw is still very shaken up by what he saw and went through at the Waffle House, very understandably.

And, he's honest about the fact that he was just focused on stopping the shooter so he could live -- it all happened so fast. Then, he started focusing on others.

He doesn't consider himself a hero, but James Shaw definitely saved lives with his heroic actions.

When he saw an opportunity to tackle Reinking, he took it and scuffled with the gunman for a minute or two before getting the AR15 away, holding it up in the air, and throwing it as far as he could away from Reinking (who then took off running), he said.



I read that Shaw's visited the victims in the hospital, raised money for them, and ^ spoke at a victims' vigil today with his 4-year-old daughter. She's a cutie.