It was only a year ago that I was in high school, so it is with a very real understanding of the feelings that these shootings are causing do I write this:
There was a time, not too incrediably long ago, when someone would forget to take the shotgun out of the rack in the back window of the truck, and nobody really gave it too much thought. Nowadays, simply saying the word "gun" in school can get your can in trouble, and may God forgive you if you make it into a whole sentence.
My point in these ramblings are this: If an 18 year old student has the cahohnes, the ability, and the mind to just randomly start shooting at fellow students, when will they realize that firefighters are like huge walking targets? If you want some really great targets, there are no better. Unarmed, respond to all sorts of situations, and to top it all off, we even have target boxes on our backs.
I know that this is mostly ranting, but it scares the crap out of me, because in X years, when I am on the line, and I respond to the partially burning building, how do I know that there is not some nut in there with an Ak looking for some fun?
Watch your backs boys n' girls. It's a whole new ballgame.
------------------
"I hate it when someone says something is impossible, because then I have to go and find a way to do it."
Whatever it is, I didn't do it, and I don't know anything about a fire. That's my story, and I'm sticking to it.
Stay safe, boys and girls. It's for keeps out there.
There was a time, not too incrediably long ago, when someone would forget to take the shotgun out of the rack in the back window of the truck, and nobody really gave it too much thought. Nowadays, simply saying the word "gun" in school can get your can in trouble, and may God forgive you if you make it into a whole sentence.
My point in these ramblings are this: If an 18 year old student has the cahohnes, the ability, and the mind to just randomly start shooting at fellow students, when will they realize that firefighters are like huge walking targets? If you want some really great targets, there are no better. Unarmed, respond to all sorts of situations, and to top it all off, we even have target boxes on our backs.
I know that this is mostly ranting, but it scares the crap out of me, because in X years, when I am on the line, and I respond to the partially burning building, how do I know that there is not some nut in there with an Ak looking for some fun?
Watch your backs boys n' girls. It's a whole new ballgame.
------------------
"I hate it when someone says something is impossible, because then I have to go and find a way to do it."
Whatever it is, I didn't do it, and I don't know anything about a fire. That's my story, and I'm sticking to it.
Stay safe, boys and girls. It's for keeps out there.
Comment