All gun laws followed, and a deputy was killed anyway

<img src="http://www.texarkanagazette.com/content/uploads/pictures/2011/04/041911_... align="right"><blockquote> Tucker Strickland, 21, of Wake Village, Texas, is loaded into a patrol car Monday after he allegedly overpowered and fatally shot Bowie County Deputy Sherri Jones. The incident occurred in the basement of the Bowie County Courthouse in New Boston, Texas, during a prisoner...</blockquote>

This is a terrible, terrible story. 54-year-old Deputy Sherri Jones died. The account states that she was escorting a prisoner in the courthouse, and he produced a gun somehow and shot and killed her.

Regarding the headline in our story, our presumption is that all of the 20,000+ laws that were designed for "gun safety" were being followed at the time. We think that this would be particularly true since this was a sworn deputy, in a courthouse, transporting a known offender, or at least an alleged offender. And somehow this 21-year-old got a gun and killed someone with it.

If all of these draconian laws that the Brady Bunch is forcing on us -- all 20,000 of them -- are supposed to keep "us" safe, and even the bending of the laws to "allow" police officers and deputies to carry guns in a courthouse, then how can they explain to Sherri's family why she will not be home for dinner tonight?

Is it possible that honest, law-abiding, taxpaying citizens are not the problem here?

(thanks for Staff photo by Evan Lewis. Link to source is http://www.texarkanagazette.com/news/2011/04/19/deputy-killed-901998.php and also see http://www.policeone.com/corrections/articles/3557579-Texas-deputy-shot-... )