I am happy that this situation worked out well. However, I have experience with enough confrontations where potential shooters couldn't be talked down; some of them were on who knows what drug, and some of them were just simply over the edge. Talking should certainly be tried, but it isn't going to work in every case.
We should ban young men. Period. Then we don't need to ban guns.
<tongue in cheek>
No, we should ban middle-aged women from teaching school. If we had male teachers, they would know that little boys need to have ways to work off their rambunctiousness and aggression before they can sit still in a classroom. They're not like little girls, who can sit nicely and listen for hours, who work together in groups to complete a project. Girls are socially-driven beings, whereas boys are competitive and independant; and yet, with the feminization of the school system, female teachers expect boys to act like girls....and when they don't, the teachers can't handle them, and their solution is to dope the boys up on Ritalin to the point where they're stupid and pliable.
I thank God every day, living here in the depraved wilderness of "the Bible Belt,"
What is depraved about it?
I am getting more and more concerned about living in a place where, increasingly, lunatics are running the asylum.
If that's your worry, as long as you stay out of the Northeast, California, Chicago, and Minneapolis, you should be all right.
One of my own children was in a situation where a drug dealer crashed a party (he was home from college on break) and put a gun to his friend's head (because his friend, who'd been drinking, goaded the drug dealer--a former high school classmate).
Well, again, I am happy that the situation turned out well. My take on it as a whole, however, is:
A) Those kinds of parties are good places to avoid.
B) Staying sober is a good practice. If the friend had been sober, he'd have known that goading a drug dealer is not a terribly smart move.
