This Is Self Defense

If you haven’t already heard it, go listen to Antoinette Tuff dealing with the man who came into her elementary school armed to the teeth.

The first thing that strikes me in listening to this conversation is how calm her voice is. Certainly she must have been frightened, but it never shows in her voice or her actions.

The other thing you can hear in this conversation is that she’s dealing with the shooter with compassion, one human being to another. I suspect she had an instinctive feeling that...