[Beef]

This has been a no brainer since the first major school shooting in Pearl, MS. If you recall, Luke Woodham shot his mother at home and then took a rifle and a handgun or to to Pearl High School. where he shot and killed his ex-girlfriend and another girl. He wounded several other students. He then let the high school and was walking to the junior high to commit more mayhem. Joel Myrick, Asst. Principal at Pearl High, heard the intial shots, ran out to his pick up truck and recovered his 1911. He then intercepted Woodham on his way to the junior high, tackled him, disarmed him and held him until LEOs arrived. Joel was a classmate of my youngest brother, (R.H. Watkins HS, Laurel, MS. '79) and was a LTC in the MS ARNG at the time. He subsequently went to Hah-vard to earn a PhD in education. While there it became known to his classmates that he was the guy that "pulled a gun" on one of his students. No one would talk to him after that. Unbelievable!

The pendulum might be starting to swing back a little, though. I heard Dave Ross, a completely exsanguinated heart liberal commentator on the CBS Radio Network, recount Joel's heroism in his daily two minute noon blurb in a GLOWINGLY POSITIVE manner! I was stunned! He actually suggested that it was THE solution. We'll see....