Armed School Guard Leaves Gun in Bathroom

First we had the gun in a Starbucks restroom, and now low and behold, a newly added armed security officer at a school in Michigan leaves his gun in the rest room. What's with the bathroom sink and guns?

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But gul, you can't take guns from a guard easily. No kid would ever ever think of touching it either!

Sounds like someone is due for a vacation to me.

What a dumbass.

Turbo dump sans courtesy flush if I had to guess. Have to get back at the little bastards whenever you can.

That's a good point.

When I feel a toxic dump about to happen, I'll usually go upstairs and use the sales department's men's room.

Sometimes, when I've got the time and I'm feeling really froggy, I'll go up to the top floor where the station manager and other "executives" work and smell up their fancy little restroom.

This part of what's funny/horrifying about this. From my perspective, this is a cautionary tale about anybody bringing a gun to my kids' school. But your perhaps equally valid concern regards relying on somebody else. Two distinct lessons about endangerment, and the commonality is that somebody who shouldn't have a gun did.

I think that an armed person in a school could be a good idea, I'm not so sure that hiring rent a cops off the street is the best way to go about it. It would be the TSA with guns and kids, what could possibly go wrong?

I'd rather see a trained and armed teacher or administrator, possibly with a firearm in a secure safe of some sort. We trust these people to educate our kids, watch them for hours a day, drive them around in buses, help them cross the street, educate them about safe sex,... the passive security of a locked firearm doesn't seem so much of a stretch.

LaPierre said they were the solution.

Exactly. I was a teacher's aide for a number of years. Teachers or other adult staff NEVER use the student bathrooms. It's a big no-no. And at some schools, the stalls don't even have doors in the student bathrooms.

Here's my long-term career prognosis: my position at my current job as an electronics technician goes away due to gub'mint military budget reductions. I see this coming.

School security gets sick of amateurs leaving guns in bathrooms, so they start hiring REAL combat seasoned Secret security level having types like myself...not those Wackenhut losers. In other words, military retirees like yours truly.

That's what they did for gate guards here at Fort Gordon - they converted civilian security guards to GS(Government Service) positions, hiring only proven gunslingers with high intelligence and pristine background checks.

I can easily foresee schools doing the same thing, probably with a mixture of retired cops and military. I would fit into a job like guarding schools like a duck takes to water. It's a pay-cut, but it beats unemployment by a long shot.