My dad is a retired teacher - a retired school principal, in fact. He grew up with guns and went hunting with my grandfather many times. And yet, I keeping trying to imagine him using a gun on something other than a rabbit or a fox and failing. He didn't even like shooting ducks! He releases spiders into the wild instead of killing them, for heaven's sake! (We're Australian, so killing rabbits and foxes is a valuable public service.)

He was a great teacher, just the kind of person people wanted teaching their kids. Unless they were expecting him to shoot someone.