Here's an actual hero: Antoinette Tuff, a clerk at Ronald E. McNair Discovery Learning Academy in Decatur, Georgia, who talked Michael Brandon Hill into laying down his semiautomatic rifle and abandoning his plan to commit suicide by cop yesterday. Hill had come to the school expecting to shoot up the school and then to die in a shootout with police; instead, Tuff talked to him for an hour while teachers, staff, and 870 children waited in the locked-down building. Hill eventually surrendered and the school was evacuated; nobody was injured.
Yeah my first thought when I saw this was "why am I just now seeing this on WONKETTE the next day?"
Not that I don't love Wonkette, but their job isn't to bring me news really quickly, and the places where that is their job....this is not a top item, to say the least.
*I* have no reason to live, and I certainly expect to die (I mean, someday, right?) but you don't see ME running around w/ a gun. I stand my ground w/ a bottle of Jamesons. You know, like a reasonable person.
Well doesn&#039;t this just <i>blow a big fucking hole</i> through this &quot;good guy with a gun&quot; bullshit. So just as torture-vs-not torture is a false dichotomy, so is the good guy-vs-bad guy gun drivel. It isn&#039;t foolproof or universal, but as it happens, talking to people like they are fellow human beings in a reasonable and non threatening manner <i>can</i> get the desired result. And I say that as a person who owns firearms (<i>not</i> nra member and never have been).
oh you wonderful miss lady. you remind me that america can be beautiful.
we could chip in. I can probably spring for an S but that&#039;ll tap me out
Yeah my first thought when I saw this was &quot;why am I just now seeing this on WONKETTE the next day?&quot;
Not that I don&#039;t love Wonkette, but their job isn&#039;t to bring me news really quickly, and the places where that is their job....this is not a top item, to say the least.
*I* have no reason to live, and I certainly expect to die (I mean, someday, right?) but you don&#039;t see ME running around w/ a gun. I stand my ground w/ a bottle of Jamesons. You know, like a reasonable person.
I am sure the NRA does not approve of this talking instead of shooting. It&#039;s probably unconstitutional anyway.
Seems perfectly descriptive to me.
Well doesn&#039;t this just <i>blow a big fucking hole</i> through this &quot;good guy with a gun&quot; bullshit. So just as torture-vs-not torture is a false dichotomy, so is the good guy-vs-bad guy gun drivel. It isn&#039;t foolproof or universal, but as it happens, talking to people like they are fellow human beings in a reasonable and non threatening manner <i>can</i> get the desired result. And I say that as a person who owns firearms (<i>not</i> nra member and never have been).
Tuff. And easy on the eyes.
I also.
is thankful for a happy ending to this story, but I am again reminded how happy I am not to have any children. This old world is one helluva mess.
Not really an option for most guntards.
Chocolate chip LIBELZ11!!!!1a1!
If only she&#039;d been armed, she could have saved herself a whole hour of talking.
-- Wayne LaPierre.
a sidewalk
Surprising, and that&#039;s sad - but quite great - to read &quot;nobody was injured&quot;.
Wow, its almost like diplomacy, love, and understanding of our fellow humans is the most powerful weapon we&#039;ve ever devised.
Nah, just kidding, its obviously the Hydrogen Bomb. Wouldn&#039;t that be a great world though?