Three days ago, a young man was arrested at a local high school with a .380 automatic in his backpack. While his intent hasn't be made public, I suspect that the vigilance of a fellow student and the decisive action of school administration and local law enforcement officers averted another tragedy. According to local media reports, this student had a decreased mental capacity and had been bullied recently by several upper classmen. Additionally, the father was arrested and charged with failure to secure a firearm, a felony in North Carolina.