Posted on 04/12/2018 9:51:15 AM PDT by Ennis85
A teacher from the Florida high school where 17 people were shot dead two months ago has been arrested after leaving his gun in a public toilet.
Sean Simpson, 43, absentmindedly left the loaded weapon inside a cubicle, says Broward County Sheriff's Office.
It was found by a homeless man who fired a bullet into the wall before Mr Simpson snatched it from his hands.
The Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School teacher previously said he was open to the idea of arming teachers.
Mr Simpson told police on Sunday he realised he had left the legally registered pistol in the toilet at the Deerfield Beach Pier after hearing a single gunshot.
After running back to the bathroom, the science teacher encountered a homeless man holding the gun, who, he added, appeared drunk.
Police arrested Mr Simpson and Joseph Spataro, 69, at the scene.
Mr Simpson was charged with failing to safely store a firearm, and was released after paying a $250 (£175) cash bond.
Mr Spataro, who told police he fired the Glock 9mm handgun to see if it was loaded, was charged with firing a weapon while intoxicated and trespassing.
Mr Simpson had voiced support for additional gun control measures after the mass shooting by a 19-year-old former student at his school on 14 February.
Last month, he attended the March for Our Lives protest in Washington DC.
Mr Simpson also previously expressed an openness to the notion of arming and training educators to fight back against school shooters
"I know there are some of us that are willing to take the training if it was offered and probably be another line of defence," he said in an interview with MSNBC.
"But again that is a complicated subject and I'm not sure if it's the answer.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
Is this really from, ‘The Onion?’
I’m going to go with “homosexual liaisons in public lavatory gone horribly wrong” for $500, Alex.
Opps, my bad!
(Note: this is rhetorical. I am not advocating taking anyone’s 2nd Amendment rights away, even leftists who would readily and freely infringe on mine!)
One could view things like this and wonder if, like mentally ill people, liberals should be allowed to own weapons. They appear to not even have a smidgen of commonsense between all of them.
And that is apart from their lack of impulse control emotional underdevelopment and outright instability.
After running back to the bathroom, the science teacher encountered a homeless man holding the gun, who, he added, appeared drunk.
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He got his weapon back and hung around for the police to arrive?
He should have got his weapon and headed on down the beach.
Is this really from, ‘The Onion?’
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LOL. An only one two sentence paragraph in the entire article.
All others are one sentence each.
I guess this happens from time to time.
There are stories about police hanging their Glocks from the coat hooks on lavatory doors - by the trigger guard - with predictable results.
Well played, Sir.
Setup....
To show irresponsibility of teachers to be armed...
S0 the teacher left a loaded weapon in a public toilet
A homeless guy goes into the toilet into the same space
Homeless guy sees a gun and shoots it off.
just random events.
Brooklyn Bridge still for sale.
I’m a female, and I never took my Sam Brown belt off, or removed my weapon from the holster when I was carrying, and had to go to the bathroom. The only mishap I ever had going to the bathroom was forgetting I had stuffed one end of a pair of hand cuffs into the back of my uniform pants, and hearing the tell-tale clunk of cuffs falling into the toilet.
They need to make a CCW belt holster that will keep the weapon in it and keep it off the floor!
An armed person is a citizen who gets respect from the government.
A disarmed person is a subject and is treated accordingly.
Broward county did go Democrat last election. These are more results of the decision
They recently had shooting in their school and a homeless guy is able to walk around unnoticed?
I bet the next suspect you cuffed appreciated that.
Bathroom stalls do create some awkward moments.
I once left my wallet on the floor of a stall; it fell out. It was at church, so another church-goer brought it to me. I was very embarrassed (and very grateful).
From that point on, I have chained my wallet to my belt, so that where I go, my wallet goes, even if I have to drag it along.
The old British Webleys had a loop on the butt for a lanyard. People who struggle with leaving their firearms behind might take a lesson from that.
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