[News] A School Shooting Didn't Happen

[Chad Sexington]

Oh my god.

So, on Tuesday a 20-year old gunman entered into a school in Decatur, Georgia with an AK-47. The school's bookkeeper, Antoinette Tuff, spoke with him and talked him down. No one was killed.

I just want to hug this woman.
http://www.policymic.com/articles/6...ho-prevented-a-mass-school-shooting-yesterday

There's an interview embedded in the link with Tuff and Diane Sawyer, it's worth listening to.

 

[Charlie Don't Surf]

all it takes to stop a bad person with a gun is a good person with common human decency

 

[Chad Sexington]

all it takes to stop a bad person with a gun is a good person with common human decency

Uncommon decency, it seems sometimes. But, this story is so heartening.

 

[GasBandit]

all it takes to stop a bad person with a gun is a good person with common human decency

If that's "all" it took, what this woman did wouldn't have been so remarkable. It's remarkable because that almost never works.

What you've said is basically "all it takes to cross Niagara Falls is a tightwire."

 

[strawman]

all people who die at the hands of gunmen have no common human decency

 

[GasBandit]

Ho, ZING.

 

[PatrThom]

Well, of course. If they were decent, they wouldn't get targeted, right?

--Patrick

 

[Dave]

all it takes to stop a bad person with a gun is a good person with common human decency

All it takes to stop a bad person with a gun is for that bad person to be open to dialogue instead of opening fire right away. This guy didn't want to kill anyone or this bookkeeping lady would have been face down in a pool of blood. I'm not taking away anything from her actions, which are unbelievably brave, but this guy wasn't a killer.

 

[Gilgamesh]

everyone who gets shot is because they didn't bother trying to beg for their life first

Oh totally, most people when faced against a gunman tend to egg them on or play a game of chicken.

(Note: this is going to be a thread where Charlie snipes a couple of times, dodging all content and then vanishing long after his little troll attempt has passed)

 

[Zappit]

Guns don't kill people. People who don't shoot people don't kill people, either.