Priorities?

While watching today's press conference about gun control I was thinking about something interesting that happened yesterday. I was driving to pick Lydia up from the school bus, and I passed a different bus dropping of a large group of elementary kids. Approaching them were two middle school kids. One took a handgun out of his jacket, spun it on this finger, smiled at me creepily and put it back. My first thought was, "what an idiot, trying to look cool with a fake gun", immediately followed by, "crap, that gun might be real, I need a cop NOW." Amazingly, I spotted a police car a block away at a speed trap. I flagged him down and told him what I saw. He looked at me with a bored gaze.

 "Was is a real gun?"

 "I don't know. It might have been."

 "So you said the boy had red hair. What color was his backpack?"

 "What? I don't know, don't you think you should go check on the kids??"

 He shrugged.

 "Ok. I guess I can drive in that direction."

Right then Lydia's bus pulled up and by the time I got back to where I saw the boy with the gun, there was no one in sight. What I just can't believe was how nonchalant that officer was. After what we have just witnessed as a country, shouldn't he have taken off like a light? Or at least asked my name for later questions? He seemed loth to miss an opportunity to give a possible speeder a ticket.

 

See the discussion on this over on my facebook page.