This cartoon is one of hundreds exactly like it, with thousands of similar headlines. We are just so full of ourselves.
A 28-year-old French banker known only as “Damien A” who does not wish to be named was the first person to tackle the gunman and grab the AK47.
51-year-old American-born college professor Mark Moogalian living in Paris while teaching at the Sorbonne was shot in the neck when he wrestled the Kalashnikov assault rifle from the gunman.
Chris Norman a 62 a British IT consultant and grandfather jumped on the arm in which the prone shooter was wielding a handgun he had just shot Mark Moogalian with.
Spencer Stone, an off-duty US airman ran to help hold gunman Ayoub El-Khazzan in a chokehold while he stabbed at him with a box cutter.
Aleks Skarlatos, 22, a member of Oregon’s National Guard, ran to the gunman with Stone and grabbed the weapons out of his hands.
Anthony Sadler, a 23-year-old student and friend of Stone and Skarlatos, jumped into action when the gunman appeared and filmed the aftermath.
American Exceptionalism.