Three heroes who did what they could to protect their girlfriends. I would like to see the media spend some time dwelling on these young men and their sacrifice. I hope they do. I hope that this clown maniac doesn't become the entire focus of the media, along with the gun control fanatics. I hope.
Courtesy Blunk Family
Jon Blunk and his girlfriend Jansen Young, whose life was saved when
Blunk threw himself on top of her in the hail of gunfire at the Century
16 movie theater in Aurora, Colo.
Three survivors of the Colorado movie-theater massacre escaped with
minor wounds, but were left with broken hearts because their heroic
boyfriends died saving them.
In final acts of valor, Jon Blunk, Matt McQuinn and Alex Teves used
their bodies to shield their girlfriends as accused madman James Holmes
turned the Aurora cineplex into a shooting gallery.
Blunk’s girlfriend, Jansen Young; McQuinn’s girlfriend, Samantha
Yowler; and Teves’ gal pal Amanda Lindgren made it out of the bloodbath —
but they would have been killed had it not been for the loves of their
lives.
“He’s a hero, and he’ll never be forgotten,” a tearful Jansen Young told the Daily News of Blunk. “Jon took a bullet for me.”
She was too distraught to speak more, but her mother called Blunk, 25,
who had two young children from a previous relationship, “a gentleman.”
“He was loving, the kind of guy you want your daughter to be with, and
ultimately, she’s alive because of this, because he protected her,”
Shellie Young said.
She said Blunk, a security guard, had served in the Navy and had
recently filled out papers to reenlist with a goal of becoming a Navy
SEAL. “To her, he was a hero anyway because he wanted to serve his
country,” she said of her daughter, who was left with shrapnel wounds to
her side. “He said that all the time: ‘I was born to serve my
country.’”
Jansen Young, 21, said Blunk took her to see Friday’s midnight premiere
of “The Dark Knight Rises” to celebrate her graduation from
veterinarian school. As the black-clad killer burst into the theater and
unleashed tear gas and a torrent of indiscriminate gunfire, Blunk
selflessly protected his girlfriend.
He pushed Jansen on the ground and under her seat, then threw his body
on top of her, the mother said. “He was 6-feet-2, in incredible shape,
which is why he was able to push her down under the seats of the
theater,” the mother said. “He pushed her down on the floor and laid
down on top of her and he died there.”
Alex Teves pushed his girlfriend, Amanda Lindgren,
to the floor to shield her when bullets began flying in the movie
theater and was struck himself.
Heroic Matt McQuinn, 26, and his girlfriend, Samantha Yowler, who is recovering from a gunshot to her knee.
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I know you've heard it a thousand times but I just can't resist.
"More gun control means more accuracy in hitting your target."
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