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Sometimes all it takes is patience and words to disarm a bad guy too.
That is the lesson of Bakersfield. Not all people are evil. The teacher at Bakersfield should be commended. Would a gun in his hands done ore than ending one more life? We have only begun to scratch the surface to gun safety and its effects on society at large. When does a person's right to be able to kill end and someone else's right to live begin? How fundamental of a discussion about being the hairless ape can we get?
