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Are you advocating that the deputy commit suicide? Wow.

Good post - this should be a recurring feature.

(And yes, that's a great chapter in BG&E.)

Kate, why did you take the bait from Y'all?

Not a fan of Lange's but he skewered her and MT on that one. On a per reporter basis, MT is as inefficient as JATRAN.

I'm afraid that many of those unloading on this man as a coward would have had the same reaction as he did. No one and I mean no one, knows how they would respond to a situation like this until they're confronted with it. Many that you think would be brave and fearless would run for the hills while some unsuspecting light weight may charge ahead. Who knows. I do know one thing however, 4 out of 5 of his accusers would have done the same thing. I am not excusing his actions and he definitely should not have picked police work to go into, I'm just calling out all the fake super heroes critical of this guy.

Did you take an oath?

I'm pro 2A, but I have never accepted the notion that we should have teachers carrying guns. You have teachers who falsify standardized test scores. You have teachers who screw their students. You have teachers who encourage their kids to paint obscene graffiti on the walls of the Millsaps Christian Center. Are these people we want packing heat?

Imagine Suzy Wallflower, a chunky 25-year-old high school math teacher getting spurned by the 10th grader she seduced. How long before this already unstable woman shows up at the kid's house with her school-issued Glock, demanding he not break up with her?

But think about your teachers growing up. If they were like mine, most were slight, older ladies who had a hard enough time handling a Delta 88 in the parking lot. I would not want my child to be in a room where 77-year-old Myrtle Mumpower tries to figure out how to get that .38 out of the holster, even if there's no shooter in the building.

Good feature, KF.

The cowardly deputy has the mark of Cain, and it is indelible. I can sympathize as a fellow human, but I also agree with your pointing out that he took an oath.

How old is Jerry Mitchell? He's already essentially retired from the newspaper; his articles are about 80% recycled information from stories he wrote years ago. If you're not going to do some original stuff, Mr. M, then make room for those who want to and will.

Not so humble opinions on my part, I know, but that's why we're here.

What’s happening in Mendenhall High today? Lot of complaints about troubled kid and alledged violence towards others. School not doing anything, but SO called.

2:09

Somebody's blazing away, working their way down the hall toward you...

You and your classmates are huddled behind your locked door.

Would you want someone... ANYONE to have a firearm when that door bust open? Nah..?

Oath? The only thing I’d be thinking is I’m about to die! Did I think about an oath before I screwed the married lady in Las Vegas? Did I think about an oath to Grover Norquist before I raised taxes? Every US soldier takes an oath so I guess they shouldn’t dig foxholes, right? You sign an “oath” when you file your taxes every year. Did you report every penny? Entitled to every deduction? Did you send a separate check to Mississippi for your out of state purchases where taxes weren’t collected? You might want to rethink the oath thing Mr Fish.

How many oaths has President Cheeto taken in his life and how much did they matter?

@2:24 how do you know that the school isn't doing anything? Did you know that in most cases a school is working through the details so giving parents/community members a minute by minute detail of happenings can delay an investigation and actually cause the investigation to go awry? Do you care?

Your distaste for Marshall Fisher is showing through - trying to claim that his push to contain meth production would push the junkies to drugs; and now there is an opioid crisis and that proves you and others were right. Never mind that there is a nationwide opioid crisis that every state is fighting. You trying to tell us that in your informed opinion that Fisher's efforts in Mississippi against Sudafed has created the nationwide crisis? Or that our crisis was created separate and apart from the other 49 states?

Mayor Phil Fisher for Thad's seat? No, thank you. To summarize, he has great disrespect for the Capitol City and Mississippi citizens he thinks are beneath him. I've been appalled in several conversations I've had with him.

1:31 the difference between Peterson and the vast majority of those commenting about his inaction is he was trained and paid to run to the sound of gunfire and protect students and staff within the school, even if his life was threatened by doing so. There was an expectation for him to act. He failed miserably. I would suspect he has difficulty in living with that fact for the rest of his life.

I am advocating that Peterson eat a bullet. His job is to place others lives before his own. Yes he took an oath but besides that he has a duty as a human to try to stop the killing. I am ashamed to say that he works in the same profession that I do. I can not imagine sitting still listening to kids getting killed without acting. He is a failure as a cop and as a man. Yes I'm judging him and yes I know what rounds coming at you sound like.

Yeah, I’ve heard that steroids will make you wear jackboots and jump in front of bullets.

The 64 dollar question. What would each individual do when confronted with a threat? During WWII the troops landing on the beaches during D-Day were not battle hardened soldiers; they were troop that had never been in combat before. (Source: The Longest Day) I wished they would harden schools before the next attack. Having layers of defenses not just one guy to protect a whole school is the best choice. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/02/22/safest-school-america-indiana/362210002/

3:56 it’s not steroids but repetitive training and real life experience that drives one to react, not freeze up.

Reading some of these comments I want to puke.

It would be a rare teacher qualified but a great line of work for returning combat veterans.

Jerry Mitchell saves me a good bit of time when doing my morning quick-scan of the Glaring Error. When I see his byline, I just skip the piece (usually one in an endless series, whatever moribund equine he is pummeling at the moment). I also make smooth detours around many of the syndicated boilerplate liberals like Eugene Robinson and Leonard Pitts. But I am a bipartisan ignorer of stories: that bloated buffoon Daniel Gardner gets no quarter in my morning brain, either (I know he isn't paid for his stuff, but still, there he is).

Teachers with guns? I don't even know where to begin on what is absurd about this cockamamie notion. All I can say is, I am profoundly grateful that none of my beloved instructors, especially in college, were packing heat. There were times, I am sure, when my sans-souci frivolity in class might have tempted them to at least shoot over my head to get my attention...but of course, back then (in the Pleistocene epoch) the idea of a crazed marauder with an AR-15 was as fantastical as the Jabberwock.

I'm with you on all but two things and they both involve the Parkland shooting.

If you get into the details of every school shooting, arming teachers is not practical nor likely to be effective even if they are trained.

It would involved not one training session and a gun and " combat pay", but repeated training to stay sharp and routine drug testing and psychological testing. You wouldn't want a veteran with PTSD teaching much less teaching with a gun. And, most veterans have never seen combat and not all of them get a medal for marksmanship.

It would be cheaper to add secure sheltering to classrooms once, than to make sure teachers can react year after year after year. Hell, you could put up guard posts and guard towers at every school for less money.

The school shooters are those who know the school. They will know which teachers are armed. They are armed with assault rifles. They have planned and have the element of surprise in their favor. These are ambushes. The ambusher has the advantage. Ask anyone who really has been ambushed in a firefight.

When surprised and frightened, humans are at the mercy of their flight/fight response. The shooter isn't. Some people flee and some fight and you won't know what your response will be until you have to face it. In fact, those combat veterans who, to their shock , initially freeze, are at high risk for PSTD as they can't forgive themselves for a brief neurological reaction they can't control. That's the difference between those who go towards danger and those who freeze.

I have an assault rifle, you have a hand gun and body armor, I win most every time. You have to get off a good head shot or take me down in the legs. I just spray you and anybody near you.

I a school shooter with an assault rifle, you have an assault rifle and we both have them up , we both lose if I see you and take others with us. You need a clean shot because you don't want to hurt the kids, I don't care about the kids.

It's not the movies people. You don't get the smell, you don't get that teachers with guns will need to have on the right shoes so they don't slip on blood and guts on their way to the shooter. You don't get that it's not just bullets but pieces of desks and walls, etc. that damage. These teachers won't be John Wick. John Wick is not real.

We need experts in human behavior and child development, education, guns ,combat, law enforcement and security to sit down together and come of with practical ideas to deal with mass shootings.

Frankly, right now our dialogue is controlled by those who earn a very nice living by dividing us or are just plain evil. I don't want anyone whose income is derived from this issue in that group. They have lied and mislead us to justify their existence. They should be ashamed of themselves.

And, there should be a special ring of Hell for the father who encouraged his son who was a student to lie about the town hall and for the neo-Nazis who attacked the Hogg family with lies as well.

Those who make a tragedy more tragic by maligning others for political or personal gain should be forever shunned so we don't have to count on them burning in Hell.

As an older Mississippian which both chronic pain and acute pain, I’ve found most doctors are VERY reluctant to prescribe any narcotics nowadays. I have had (and still have) prescription opioids that I use on occasion to deal with he acute pain. I take two milder, long-term pain relievers for the chronic pain. The fear of losing one’s license (or the thought of even having to go through an investigation) keeps many doctors from treating people like me, who actually use opioids in a proper manner, from prescribing what has been a great solution over the past few years. Opioids, if properly taken, interact less or have less side effects than substitute prescription medications and are much more effective at reducing the pain to a tolerable level. Yes, I still have pain when I walk due to an ankle injury that just won’t heal well at my age, but it is manageable with an occasional Percocet. My health care provider always checks my PMP before renewing the prescription and we go through a thorough examination so that the issues I have with pain are properly documented. I’ve been switched over to many substitute (for narcotics) medications in the past with poor pain control. I worry the about toxicity of those substitute medications, too. I would never purchase heroin and don’t imagine many my age would think of such. While I applaud the effort to help end addiction, I lament the effect this “crisis” has had on effective pain management in the elderly.

Marshall Fisher is no different than the Donna Ladds of Mississippi. Thinks he knows f'ing everything and dreams of dictating to others what to do, how to think and when.

Arming teachers?
What about the janitors and cafeteria workers?
When a shooter knows that teachers are armed, guess who the first target will be. It's one thing to shoot at a paper target at your convenience, try producing a firearm when your heart rate and adrenaline has suddenly tripled.

Try looking at the scene in a different. Right now teachers are not armed. Some loose their lives protecting their students. At least if some are armed they can return fire. They do not just have to wait to be killed.

We have too many people who have never used a gun and too many who are against guns in general trying to tell people what will happen if some teachers are armed. Of course they have no idea what they are talking about gut that doesn't slow them down one bit.

Teachers can qualify for a handgun just the same as any other person. They can get a concealed carry permit just like anyone else. They would be as safe as anyone else.
They might actually save a few lives.

Uh-huh. Try talking to the real narcs on the street and not the MBN cowboys. All Commissioner Squeegee's sudafed ban did was push production to Mexico. No competition meant a monopoly although the stuff is higher quality as well.

As for arming teachers, what I favor is this. If a teacher goes through a reserve police officer or deputy program, in other words, gets law enforcement training and not the 8 hour enhanced carry permit training, then I have no problem with him or her being allowed to carry a concealed weapon since a cop can do so in that school already. However, I think any annual hourly service requirements should be waived since they are full -time government employees. Most reserve programs have such a requirement.

Any armed cop who would not enter a place where people are being killed has no business being a cop.

Judges aren’t supposed to work with police and prosecutors. Judges are supposed to be neutral for a society to be free. You’re right about Rankin and Madison counties.

If teachers pack heat, how many shootings will they avert, compared to how many students they'll shoot themselves because the teachers lose their damn minds?