Posted on 12/16/2010 12:13:55 PM PST by pillut48
PANAMA CITY, Florida — The Florida security guard who confronted a gunman during a school board meeting said Thursday that he was "no hero" and wasn't thinking about bullets or dying.
His biggest fear, he said, was that he had let down his superintendent.
"I saw that first shot and I knew the superintendent fell backward," Mike Jones said during a press conference on Thursday. "I thought he'd killed him, that I'd let him down."
Jones, a 20-year police veteran, calmly, and at times tearfully, described the events leading up to Clay Duke taking his own life after firing at several school board members. Authorities said Duke, 56, was distraught that his wife had been fired by the school district earlier this year.
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No. Grew up in the 50's. You described Stepford, CT. That was not the reality.
“Were the suburbs “comfortable concentration camps” for women in the 1950s as Friedan’s book said?”
Your answer would be yes.
Why do so many here when responded to, fail to address the response but immediately start with the personal attacks and intentional distortions and misrepresentations?
The superintendent said that God saved him from the bullet. I watched the video and that guy should’ve been able to shoot them all at close range...but he missed.
However, Duke surprised himself when he shot the floor with his second round.
If she had had my wife's purse, the guy would have been bowled over.
Why would you think I’m attacking you personally? I don’t even know you.
Eh, no wonder.
We don’t need libby trolls here.
Thank you for those kind words. There are many wonderful people in this area.
Bring your family here for a vacation....we have the world’s most beautiful beaches too!
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