Tim Cahill on dangerous destinations

“If you’re going to a place where there are going to be guns, it really does help to know what everybody is mad about. Do a lot of reading. Find out who’s who and what’s what so that if you happen to be in the hands of somebody who may have reason not to like you, you would be able to say some things that a person might agree with.”
–Tim Cahill, in Michael Shapiro’s A Sense of Place (2004)