I’m not usually one to make “call out” posts…and I certainly don’t do it about conventions, especially ones I don’t attend.

However…

1. The person with the prop gun at FWA on Sunday was damn lucky he didn’t trigger a police response with their action. It would have been bad enough had the police descended on the convention…would have been worse if a police officer saw them and deemed them an immediate threat to the public and tried to neutralize them.

2. They were probably just as lucky they didn’t set off some other gun toting person at the con…looking to be a hero…who didn’t have the training that a police officer has.

3. The convention itself was damn lucky this person’s action didn’t set off a mass panic event that injured attendees.

About a year ago, MFF did a table top exercise with leadership that involved a mass shooting at the convention. Seeing these pictures, frankly, makes me sick.

FWA needs to make sure something like this doesn’t happen again.