Broward county deputy

Okay, since I posted this other stuff about the Broward County deputies who didn't go into the school during the shooting, we finally heard an explanation from the deputy who resigned. He thought the gunman was outside the school. The layout of the place was such that the sound was bouncing off buildings and you couldn't tell which direction it was coming from, and there was a report that someone was shot outside in a field. So the deputy was doing what they told him to do, stay out there, take cover and report what's happening.

I knew this guy in high school who had a gun. He would carry it around with him outside of school. But he would carry it in the bottom of his bookbag or he had it so carefully concealed on his person that it would be very difficult to get to it. I asked him what he would do if anything actually happened and he said, "That's a good question." He didn't need it.

But one morning he had to go to his locker to get something. He opened his book bag, looked inside and said, "Oh, shit." He brought his gun to school. He didn't mean to. So when the class ended, he grabbed his bag and ran home.

He had a .45 automatic. I went shooting with him once and learned that he couldn't hit a target more than ten feet away. 

So gun owners' heroic fantasies never impressed me very much.

After high school, my friend was convicted of a felony, put in a mental hospital and kicked out of the military. He was on probation, fresh out of the psycho ward and was convinced there was a gravitational anomaly in his rented room. And he somehow got a job as a security guard at a local high school.