Imagine this: New Yorkers are riding the subway when a deranged man barges into the car and starts screaming that he’s going to kill people. He looks crazed, clearly on drugs—lots of them.
If you were riding that train, you might have thought you were about to die a violent death, and some of the passengers thought exactly that. A mother with her young son hid behind a stroller. A high school student prayed as the man yelled, “Someone is going to die today!” and lunged at commuters.
Enter a strapping Marine vet to take the psycho down. Which he does efficiently, effectively. He holds him until police (eventually) arrive, and keeps the other passengers out of danger. When he lets go of the assailant, the guy is still breathing.
His name is Daniel Penny and he’s an American hero, right?
No, not in Progressive World.
The disturbed guy later died at the hospital—after he had been…
