A Positive Story for a Change: School Employee Talks Down Gunman

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  1. sanantone

    sanantone Well-Known Member

    [video=youtube;1kVpipSXRKA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kVpipSXRKA[/video]
     
  2. 03310151

    03310151 Active Member

    Well done. What a brave woman!
     
  3. Maniac Craniac

    Maniac Craniac Moderator Staff Member

    I join you in relief that no one was hurt, and in great admiration and commendation for the woman who prevented a massacre and/or suicide. Awesome to hear!

    The comment I am compelled to make is unfortunately rather cynical. The title of this thread makes me sad. The "positive story" we are greeted with is not that a particularly good thing happened, but that a particularly bad thing did not happen. Is "good news" really nothing more than "not bad news"?

    I'm not even sure, at this point in my life, if I could appropriately react to nor even intelligently recognise a positive news story if I saw one because I would have very little else to compare it to in terms of my history of news readership.
     

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