If this were a member of the chess team, I'd say the same thing. If it were a tennis player, same deal.
We are talking about firing a gun into an apartment. Whether you are in favor of gun-owners' rights or not, whether this was just an accidental shooting or not, bottom line is that a kid picked up a gun in a situation where he was putting people's lives at significant risk and it went off. If he fired it intentionally, even if not meaning to hurt anyone, I cannot believe that anyone in their right mind would say that the kid gets a second chance. This is just way too serious. This isn't discounted sneakers or even a free SUV from a booster.
And, if the kids say it simply went off accidentally, well, that and a quarter will buy you a cup of coffee. I suppose some case could be made to give him a chance to prove his judgment is not as awful as it would seem, but if I were Meyer the onus would be on the kid to come up with a plan that basically relegated him to no life whatsoever for a long period of time.
And let's not forget the others with all these guns. What on Earth do they need those for? Loaded .38's in the car? Sorry, but something is not right and Meyer absolutely in my opinion is compelled to find out what the hell is going on with these kids. And then whoever is formenting this attitude of guns and whatnot needs to be looked at very seriously to be kicked off the team.
Tell you what. It is not worth an SECC or even a NC to have a student hit and injured or killed by a stray bullet. No way, no how. This to me is the biggest football-related problem I have ever heard of at Florida and as an alumn I expect, demand actually, that the school and the team do whatever they have to do to get to the bottom of it.
