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32-Year Veteran School Guard Leaves Gun In School Bathroom
2013/01/17
By McAllister

The NRA made it clear – guns in schools will make them safe. “The only thing that can stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.” Well, unless that good guy leaves his gun in the school’s bathroom so he can neither protect his charges nor keep them from having access to his gun.

On January 13th of this year…just four days ago the Chatfield School in Lapeer, Michigan followed the directive of the NRA…to the letter. They hired an armed guard, an experienced Sheriff’s Deputy to take charge of security for their 500 child school. The announcement said “Thirty-two year retired Sheriff’s deputy in charge” and it was observed by the local Tea Party spokesperson that “a visitor to Chatfield School might mistake Clark Arnold for a smiling, kindly grandfather waiting for one of its nearly 500 students.”

Arnold, a 32-year veteran of the Lapeer County Sheriff’s Dept., as well as a firearms instructor, has been hired by the 16-year-old charter school academy as the county’s first armed school security officer. The decision was applauded by Bruce Cady, a trustee on the Chatfield Board of Directors, who added, “Absolutely. The decision was made for the good of the kids. We took the wellbeing of the kids and their safety into consideration. The events that have been happening in the schools is [sic] very concerning and that’s why we took the action we did.”

Just three days later…a report from the Flint Journal says that “A security officer at a Lapeer charter school left a firearm unattended in a school bathroom on Monday, Jan. 14, a school official said.

Further, “the security officer “made a breach in security protocol” and left an unloaded weapon in a restroom for a few moments,” said Chatfield School Director Matt Young.

Young said the school has been in contact with local authorities about the matter and wouldn’t discuss any possible repercussion for the officer, calling it “a personnel matter.” Young also declined to name the security officer.(continued)
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Oh, the irony ....

I used to live in Oxford just south of Lapeer. Nice place.

Meanwhile, here in OryGun, five county refuse to enforce any new federal gun regulations that they deem unconstitutional.



I like the wiggle room they gave themselves.

Oh yeah. Turns out having loaded weapons introduced into a primary and secondary school environment is a really great idea. Absolutely nothing bad can happen.

And these five county sheriffs are expecting to be re-elected next time they run for the office???

Oh... and what are the prosecuting attorneys and Judges going to say to them about failure to enforce federal laws?

Hmmm, lemme see if I have this right. These guys won't enforce laws they don't like while they work to arrest others who disregard laws they don't like.

I would like to know how a teacher who is carrying a concealed weapon is going to respond when confronting in the school building a shooter who is wearing body armor while spraying ammo at a muzzle velocity of 3,000 feet per second???

Care to add a comment?

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I'm hoping the sheriffs read the Heller decision clearly and carefully before they decide what gun regulations 'infringe' the 2nd amendment.

I don't like the decision, as I've said (I think they totally ignore the context of militias in formulating their individual right view), but the conservative majority also spelled out that while total handgun bans (and similar "sweeping" actions) violated the 2nd amendment, many other kinds of gun regulation/control do not.

BTW, by my reading of Heller, none of the President's 23 executive orders cross the boundaries that Scalia and the SCOTUS majority set.

Obama's 23 executive orders have no bearing on Second Amendment rights. They are within his authority as head of the Executive branch of government.

Re: Heller, here is a link:

Lol especially if they forgot it in the bathroom.

cowards always give themselves 'wiggle room'.....

would it kill them to actually read the Constitution past the 2nd amendment? geez....

Yes it would. It all boils down to them having all the weapons so they can kill somebody. These morons are so afraid that if the shit actually did hit the fan, they would be hiding in their bunker. Fu*king cowards. I also suspect that clowns like this are responsible for some of the UNSOLVED murders that occur in the inner city. Can I prove it? Hell no, but I also can't prove how it is some of these same types that are dumping hot weapons into the inner cities either, but we know it's true. Just like the cabal in the GHW Bush administration is responsible for the crack epidemic. All to fund an illegal war.

Tell me I'm lying.

By land area the great majority of Oregon is dark red. These sheriffs have little to worry about come re-election time.

something they didnt have to worry about before

so if you own a gun, you are more likely to have it used against you?

let me ponder this for uno momento