Just maybe arming teachers and other staff in schools isn't a good idea...

[jmg257]

or police for that matter...

Lloyd police officer who fired gun in Highland NY High School resigns
after investigation finds him at fault

HIGHLAND, N.Y. — Sean McCutcheon, the resource officer who fired a shot from his service weapon in a hallway at Highland High School, has resigned from the Lloyd Police Department after an investigation concluded the incident, though unintentional, was due to “officer error,” the department said on Friday.

McCutcheon, a retired New Paltz police officer who had been the resource officer at Highland High School since early this year, was placed on leave while Lloyd police investigated the March 5 incident.

A single shot was fired from McCutcheon’s department-issued Glock 45 pistol at 1:38 p.m. that day as he was on foot patrol in a hallway at the school, police said at the time.

Lloyd police said on Friday that their investigation concluded McCutcheon had a “lapse in judgment, unsecured his duty weapon and, in doing so, inadvertently discharged one round from his weapon into the floor.”

McCutcheon was an active-duty Lloyd police officer who worked in the Highland schools through an agreement between the town and the district.
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http://www.dailyfreeman.com/articles/2013/03/15/news/doc51436382d4cd1565275199.txt

[ellisonz]

1. The more guns you have in an environment the more incidents with guns there will be...

[jmg257]

2. Yep - by last count atleast 4 directly related just since these programs started after Newtown.

But somehow more 'guns!!!' is 'the only answer' to better safety.

{instead of the only honest answer to what is the 1 thing ALL shootings have in common?}

[ellisonz]

3. More guns is never the answer!

[freshwest]

8. The only thing I see in common is that a profit was made on the sale and use of the guns. Yay.

Guns are treated as just another consumer product when they should be regarded as serious tools for killing. Soldiers learn to respect their weapons.

By the regulations they signed up under, they are only to use them under orders passed down with deliberation in a war zone, not a school, not a neighborhood, not because they are ticked off.

Despite failures in the application of deadly force and theft, and other disclaimers to their regulation in the military, I suggest that civilians take the possession and use of guns just as seriously as soldiers and not as hobbies or status symbols.

[reteachinwi]

4. Return to your desk Johnny.

[nonoyes]

5. A less-militarily trained, less experienced teacher would NEVER

make a mistake like this, right?

What could possibly go wrong when a well-meaning teacher is distracted, while armed with a gun, and a 15-year old comes up from behind and takes away the teacher's Glock?

What could possibly go wrong?

[jmg257]

6. Bad enough. More likely some poor hero will leave their piece on the

back of the shitter when they realize the weight is pulling their pants to the floor.

"School security guard in Michigan leaves gun in bathroom, officials say

Officials say a recently hired security officer left a firearm unattended in a Michigan charter school bathroom, local media reported. In a Jan. 7 newsletter, the school told families it had hired the school security officer, a veteran of the Lapeer County Sheriff Department {and firearms instructor} who had retired."

[nonoyes]

7. Yes, I read about that one.

Thank goodness no one got hurt that time.

But
Many (not most, but significant number of) tragic gun deaths are accidental, many of them children or teens.

Thus dis-proving "only criminals shoot people with guns" meme.