Violence is never the answer for the desperate, as there are always opportunities whether they are hidden or not. Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Baltimore’s mayor at the time, explains, “[T]his is the only place that so many people have to pick up their prescriptions”(qtd. In Hyman. By being the only available place to pick up a prescription, most of the city residents do not have the opportunity to get medicine now that it is burned down. Even if residents do have a vehicle to drive to the nearest CVS, they might not be in a good enough financial situation to spend their money on gas. Accordingly, history also rejects the value of disobedience when a group of people in the Middle East who were Christian would not convert to the main religion in
