Mary Knowlton was the 73-year old retired librarian who made the ill-fated decision to participate in a “shoot/don’t shoot” demonstration with a criminally incompetent member of the punitive class. Lee Coel was supposed to be shooting blanks, but instead fired two live rounds through Knowlton’s heart, killing her. This rooting, snorting, unionized piece of garbage has been charged with “manslaughter”, and will more than likely serve no time at all, thanks to the “thin blue line” institutional support, amplified by the unconditional love held by an idiotic and unthinking public. Knowlton is a victim of the culture of incompetence that is rampant among police departments today. The kid who killed her had probably never even held a gun 6 months ago, but he did have the quick temper and eagerness to escalate a situation so prized among departments. IQ hovering below that of my dog. (That is an insult to my pit bull, actually, who exhibits daily a capacity for reflection and judgment far above that of most people I encounter).

As every firearm owner knows, you never point your gun at anyone, whether you think you’re loaded or not. Every real gun owner feels the gravitational pull of their barrel down to the ground, and obeys that instinct. No real gun owner would ever dream of pointing their weapon at an elderly woman, much less fire blanks at her heart.

Here’s a good example of why it’s a bad idea to mingle education and medical procedures. Many have pointed out the fact that if any of those students had been diabetic, the school would’ve had a death on their hands. Now everyone involved is getting sued, and the families will probably get a sizable pay-out. Litigation is the answer here.

The most outrageous part of the story, though, is that, once the school realized its mistake, it told the students not to tell their parents about the mishap. The student that OD’d also was not administered medical aid at the school. The parents evidently arrived to find their child unconscious in a chair.

Public schools have no business administering medical procedures, including vaccines. The personnel, more often than not, isn’t competent. Shots, and everything else, must be done in a doctor’s office, with parents present.