The University of Georgia's student newspaper serves up this wonderful story highlighting the exemplary conduct of a couple of ATF agents, on campus for an unrelated training session, who recognized danger... and took it down. Now, sure, you pessimists will probably point out that the danger in question was a kid who dressed up as a ninja for a party - a kid whose entire costume consisted of putting a bandana over his face - but I think it's more important to focus on what these guys did right. Imagine if that had been an actual ninja they forcibly subdued? Then who'd be laughing?

"Seeing someone with something across the face, from a federal standpoint — that’s not right," McLemore said, explaining why agents believed something to be amiss.

"From a state or local standpoint... well, I can't really speculate. But yeah, federally, they teach us that on Day 1: 'something across the face is not right.' And then later that day we learn about how to overreact to things."

(Link courtesy of Last Call.)