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A teacher at Parkland, Floridas Marjory Stoneman Douglas Highwho said hed be willing to arm himself at school to protect studentshas been accused of leaving his loaded handgun in a public restroom, where it was picked up and fired by a drunk homeless man. The Miami Herald reported chemistry teacher Sean Simpson told deputies he left his gun by accident but, by the time he realized, the homeless man had already found it and fired the Glock 9mm at a wall. Simpson said he was able to grab the gun away from the homeless man, Joseph Spataro, who was later charged with firing a weapon while intoxicated. Simpson was arrested and charged with failing to safely store a firearm and posted a $250 cash bond, but reportedly faces no disciplinary action from the school, where 17 people were killed by a teen gunman on Feb. 14.
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Ohiogal
(32,168 posts)If there really is such a thing as a "responsible gun owner".....
ExciteBike66
(2,393 posts)They are all "responsible" and "law-abiding", until they are not.
zaj
(3,433 posts)That's an absurd suggestion.
Mosby
(16,416 posts)Lee-Lee
(6,324 posts)Dont fall under something a public school teacher can be disciplined for.
Phoenix61
(17,025 posts)"Good moral character" is pretty standard in employment contracts for teachers. How it's applied varies. A private school teacher was recently fired for marrying her same-sex partner.
Lee-Lee
(6,324 posts)And a low level misdemeanor charge isnt going to be an issue that rises high enough for a public school teacher.
Now I personally think that what he did warrants a more serious charge, but state laws vary on that. For what we see here it just isnt going to be enough to let a public school take any action.
Lee-Lee
(6,324 posts)It just takes a tiny few to make everyone with a CCW look bad, especially when people are out looking for every reason to do so.
EffieBlack
(14,249 posts)it when that's just a small fraction of all of the people who have guns? It's a shame that these tiny few dead people make all of the other gun owners "look bad."
Lee-Lee
(6,324 posts)Your claim is baseless exaggerate chicken little hysteria.
sarisataka
(18,895 posts)From an instructor in how not to be an idiot and leave your gun in the bathroom:
If you must remove it from the holster, take off your shoe and put the gun in it. You will never walk off and forget one shoe.
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)But of course branding a commercial demographic's appeal is quite the concern for some odd, self-validating reason, especially "when they are out looking for every reason to do so..."