Last week was a bad week - albeit a short week - for the LA schools.

One young man brought his backpack to class and set it down a bit too hard - causing the loaded handgun in it to discharge - grazing one classmate in the neck and causing a critical head wound to another.

A run of the mill "bring your handgun to school" at another campus and a school cop who responded to a call about some riffraff breaking into cars. He was surprised by the bad guy's "one shot to the chest greeting" but thankfully, was saved by his body armor.

The bad guy was thought to have run onto another school campus. The school was on lock down for hours while 350 cops searched the area.

Three "lock downs" in a week. How sad. I remember fire drills and tornado drills and even - during the Cuba Missile Crisis - Nuclear Attach Drills.

Now students learn about lock downs and metal detectors and body armor. The "enemy from within" instead of the "enemy from outside."

Good training I suppose for going to the Safeway.