It Was the Sheriff
The weapon left at the middle school was the Sheriff's. The top guy. https://articles.mlive.com/news/saginaw/index.ssf/2018/03/sheriff_apologizes_for_leaving.amp?__twitter_impression=true
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More Guns in Schools
Officer changes clothes in school over the weekend, leaves weapon in bathroom: https://articles.mlive.com/news/saginaw/index.ssf/2018/03/police_gun_found_in_middle_sch.amp?__twitter_impression=true
Guns in Schools
Teacher accidentally discharges firearm in Calif. classroom. He was trained in gun use. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/03/14/teacher-accidentally-discharges-firearm-in-calif-classroom-he-was-trained-in-gun-use/
Educating "Not Teachers", Endangering Children: The March of the Morons
A new low in the brain trust and politics. Well, actually, nationally, our commitment to education sucks, if I may employ the vernacular. Income inequality rules in both public and private sectors. The quality of your schooling depends on money, plain and simple. But that's another rant. Don't even get me started on Betsy. But this arming school employees movement? You are putting children at risk. Again. The income inequality thing is a slow death; dismal futures for the impoverished including high rates of incarceration. The misery has been documented over and over. And now, this. Instant death. People who know how to handle active shooter situations are five minutes away. Assault rifle killings get to double digits dead in a couple minutes. If I do the math, rather than get at the root of the destruction, the gun, I'm going to look at putting a doofus with a pea shooter and minimal training in the sights of a killer intent on killing? Holy shit. Oh, and wait, a...
When the Officer Shines
No guns in schools, please. Here's a rebuttal to the notion of training people to protect, from Bay City, MI. in 2017. A 51-year-old, eleven-year veteran Sheriff's deputy was the perp. Not a new recruit fresh out of an 80-hour "training", but a mature, seasoned, professional peace officer, that one could reasonably expect to be a responsible wielder of lethal force. The guy had teamed with the robotics teacher to test the trigger pull force on his 9 mil. He returned later, alone, to test his second firearm, a .380 Sig Sauer. That gun was loaded, and the bullet entered an adjacent classroom in which there were 30 kids and a teacher. The bullet, its energy spent in travel through walls and such, barely scratched the teacher. So no injury, but the folks on scene allowed the cop to handle the bullet, evidence that he threw away. He knew he was in trouble and admitted nothing. One can argue that this is an isolated incident, successfully. And I'm sure I'll...
Teachers Carrying
I walked into a classroom some time ago for an observation. The teacher had 20+ student workbooks in her arms and was walking up and down the rows, handing them out. At one point she stopped, and looked at me quizzically. "What was I doing?" she asked me. "Uh, handing out workbooks?" I asked back, not certain if that was what she was talking about. "Oh, right!" she said, and continued the distribution of the workbooks. On a very rainy day, a teacher at my wife's school came in soaking wet. She had just recently begun driving, having cabbed it to work previously (there were no Ubers then). When asked about her drenched appearance, it became clear that she did not know about windshield wipers, and she drove with her head out the window. I do not think teachers should have guns. The principal at my wife's school received a bomb threat on the telephone just as the student lunch period began. He evacuated the building after lunch, citing the p...