The harrowing events of the siege on Los Angeles’s Nakatomi Plaza took place 31 years ago. That tragic incident and the heroic response by one off-duty police officer were recounted in a now beloved documentary that recounts what is widely considered to be a Christmas miracle.

 

We can all be thankful, however, that those terrifying events didn’t take place in 2019. In this age of social media, we’re all too familiar with politicians and the gun control community opportunistically using the acts of madmen like Hans Gruber and his band of terrorists to push their anti-gun agenda.

If the Nakatomi Plaza assault took place today, what would their response look like? Here are some very possible likely tweets:

 

Let’s not forget HRC:

 

 

For our readers in Illinois:

 

Merry Die Hard day.