It’s easy in this day and age to overlook the good stuff happening around us.
A perfect example is the gunman scare Wednesday at UTC.
Though there was plenty of second-guessing in the hours after about whether UTC officials properly responded to reports of a man carrying a rifle near the campus (UTC students were evacuated, not put on lockdown), there also were plenty of important lessons.
Most importantly, the “gunman” turned out to be a Chattanooga police officer walking to his house from his car after a work shift. But aside from that very wonderful turn of events, consider these silver linings:
* First silver lining: People who thought they saw something suspicious reported it. The original 911 caller told dispatchers he thought it could have been a police officer but he couldn’t be sure. What if he’d been wrong, but said nothing?