LEADING BY EXAMPLE. Parkland Teacher Left His Loaded Handgun in Public Bathroom

[DonViejo]

A teacher at Parkland, Florida’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High—who said he’d be willing to arm himself at school to protect students—has 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]

1. I'm beginning to wonder

If there really is such a thing as a "responsible gun owner".....

[ExciteBike66]

2. Oh its just like "law-abiding" gun owners...

They are all "responsible" and "law-abiding", until they are not.

[zaj]

3. Why would he ever face "disciplinary action from the school"?

That's an absurd suggestion.

[Mosby]

4. because of the code of conduct agreement he signed.

[Lee-Lee]

6. Im pretty sure unrelated incidents off the campus

Don’t fall under something a public school teacher can be disciplined for.

[Phoenix61]

11. Actually, they do

"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]

13. Private school and public school are very different situations

And a low level misdemeanor charge isn’t 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 isn’t going to be enough to let a public school take any action.

[Lee-Lee]

5. Dumbass

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]

8. Yup. I mean, only a few people kill innocent victims with guns every day, so why make a big deal of

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]

10. CCW holders are not killing innocent victims at the rate of a few a day

Your claim is baseless exaggerate chicken little hysteria.

[sarisataka]

9. Best advice I heard

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]

12. But of course branding a commercial demographic's appeal is quite the concern

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..."

[EffieBlack]

7. Hey! Let's give the teachers guns so they leave them laying around the SCHOOL bathrooms!