Georgia Teacher Fires Shot in High School...No One Hurt

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DaleA

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Okay. A high school teacher in Georgia barricaded himself in his class room and fired a shot. No one was hurt. He was later taken into custody. He is on record saying he is against arming teachers. He also has a troubled, (Time calls it a 'History of Bizarre Behavior'.

It doesn't seem this was a stunt. It just seems like a troubled individual acting out.

A year ago he went missing from school and was found sitting on a curb, unresponsive and was taken to a hospital.

In 2016, Davidson walked into the lobby of the Dalton police headquarters and told a wild story including his suspicions that someone had been murdered, police said. Detectives couldn’t verify that any of it was true, and he was taken to the hospital since he’d expressed thoughts of hurting himself, police wrote in their report on that episode.
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So while the 'anti-gun' folk will try to make hay out of this being an argument against arming teachers does ANYONE believe this is one of the teachers that would have been armed???

ONE of the stories about it is here but just Google it and you'll find a lot.
http://time.com/5179477/dalton-high-school-shooting/
 
Sounds like a guy who shouldn't have been around kids, let alone be a teacher.

One of the adages for teaching is you either have to be dedicated or demented. Clearly this guy is the latter.
 
A history of bizarre behaviors...

Okay, first of all, why is he allowed to continue to teach and be around children. This bears striking resemblance to the story of that South Korean surgeon who showed up drunk to an operation but yet was still allowed to work as a surgeon and never had his license revoked until a social media post revealed a video of his antics, sparking a major national investigation.

Seems like the problem of "You see something, you say something, and we do nothing" is far more pervasive than we can think. Otherwise, how did Devin Patrick Kelley escape the firearm background check radar despite being convicted of assault and battery of his wife and child while in the Air Force, and how did the authorities in Florida missed FOUR chances of stopping Nikolas Cruz.
 
That gets us into the reality of human nature.

And we cross that all the time. The deputy that did not want to do his duty case in point.

You can talk, you can select, but when push comes to shove, will anyone do what they are supposed to in the ultimate sacrifice?

We don't know. So far we don't know a way to sort it out.

Each action has its unintended side affects.

Like locking cockpit doors on aircraft, there have been around 4 situation where the pilot locked out the co pilot and committed suicide (or mass murder)

Adds up to something around 400 people dead due to locking cockpits (can't break down the door now)

The US was smart enough to require a flight attendant to be in the cockpit so the pilot or co pilot was not alone.

While the attendant is not trained nor necessarily capable of dealing with a nut case (we have had a couple) having a human presence there is a possible dissuasion) .

Two cases where pilots got into an arguments and one locked the other out.

Just arming people does not solve anything. And expecting them to act with due diligence and correct response even with training is not close to a given.
 
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