Survival, Realized | Human Events
“I worked behind the scenes. I co-produced a music video, a montage tribute to John,” said Frankel, referring to a co-worker who had shielded his wife from the raging lunatic. “I never missed an opportunity to publicize our stories, especially Scully’s, and campaign for gun control. I helped organize a march down California Street. I co-produced a documentary marking the first anniversary of the massacre. I was on the front lines of the gun control movement and I was exploiting the tragedy to make political gains.”
But in the back of Frankel’s mind loomed an unshakable question. If the gunman had found him hiding in an office, armed only with a woefully inadequate blunt object, would it have saved him? Or would he have died too?
Over the years and in places ranging from Maui to South Dakota, Frankel encountered more violent criminals and a lack of police presence. He realized that some of the same laws he had once promoted were preventing him from reasonable self-defense. That lingering doubt about if he would have survived, paired against encounters with fleeing felons, local rapists and a convicted murderer slowly changed Frankel from a gun control promoter to a practicing gun rights litigator.
