Remember Barack Obama’s “Big Sister” touting the need for Americans to be aware of their surroundings and if they “see something, say something”?  From the collection of children running this president’s administration, that’s not surprising.  After all, they have us “pajama boy”, right?

Glenn Reynolds has a better idea.

Glenn Reynolds: See something? DO something!

We are a pack of wolves, not a herd of sheep. Courage is contagious when intended victims thwart would-be terrorists.

by Glenn Reynolds

(USA Today) – “Three Marines stop terrorist on French train” was the gist of the first headlines on this weekend’s counterterrorism story. But when the actual facts came out, the story got even better.

As it turns out, it wasn’t three Marines. It was two U.S. servicemembers — from the National Guard and the Air Force — and their civilian buddy from middle school. And they had the help of a traveling British businessman.

The three were riding on a train from Amsterdam to Paris when a gunman — an Islamist from Morocco who had visited Syria and was flagged as a possible jihadist — started shooting. One of the Americans, Airman 1st Class Spencer Stone, 23, sprinted at the gunman and tackled him. The others, Oregon National Guardsman Alek Skarlatos, 22, and Sacramento State University student Anthony Sadler, 23, joined in.

As Skarlatos recounted in a Sky News interview from his hotel in Arras, northern France: “I just looked over at Spencer and said, ‘Let’s go!’ Spencer got to the guy first, grabbed the guy by the neck, and I grabbed the handgun, got the handgun away from the guy and threw it. Then I grabbed the AK (assault rifle), which was at his feet, and started muzzle thumping him in the head with it.”

(There’s much more)

…At the very least, it should remind citizens that while you can’t rely on the government to be everywhere you are, you yourself are always there.

Amen, brother.