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 hear "the gun didn't do it, the guy did," which also is true, and ludicrous. But if, as in Florida, we hire "up to ten" people to carry, in a school, a little math says.... how many people might we have nationally, and at what levels of training, maturity, and common sense? Hundreds of thousands. And among them, how many more like this fool?

https://articles.mlive.com/news/bay-city/index.ssf/2017/04/deputy_who_fired_gun_in_school_1.amp?__twitter_impression=true

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