# Let's hear it for Chris Mintz
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-hear-it-for-chris-mintz/733441
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [October 3, 2015, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-hear-it-for-chris-mintz/733441 "2015-10-03T23:24:58Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2015, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-hear-it-for-chris-mintz/733441/1 "2015-10-03T23:24:58Z")
(Forked from **Lancia** ’s [thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=770598))
> [@\[My friend was killed in the\] Oregon community college shooting \[edited title\]](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-friend-was-killed-in-the-oregon-community-college-shooting-edited-title/733166/160):
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> One of the heroes that tried to stop the attack. He tried blocking the classroom door and took three bullets. He was shot two more times after the shooter got in the classroom.
> [Army vet shot at least five times trying to stop Oregon shooter; hero dad to survive shooting on day of son’s birthday: family – New York Daily News](http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/army-vet-shot-times-stop-oregon-shooter-article-1.2382674)
A man whose balls clang loud and clear. Taking on an armed gunman while unarmed is well into medal territory over here in the UK.
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### Author:  [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2015, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-hear-it-for-chris-mintz/733441/2 "2015-10-03T23:44:06Z")
Hear hear. I’m glad he’s going to survive. His gofundme page has exploded with donations.
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### Author:  [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2015, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-hear-it-for-chris-mintz/733441/3 "2015-10-04T00:03:22Z")
I read about him earlier. Impressive, and much deserving of praise. I don’t know that I’d have it in me to do what he did…
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### Author:  [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2015, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-hear-it-for-chris-mintz/733441/4 "2015-10-04T00:13:20Z")
May none of us ever have the opportunity to determine if we’d be as heroic.
A test I am happy to not take.