Breathtaking stupidity from some of the only ones "professional" enough to carry firearms in public

A hospital in Las Vegas, Nevada decides to conduct a drill to test its security procedures in the event of an attack by an armed crazy person.

Sounds perfectly reasonable and prudent so far.

Then they had to go and get all idiotic about it:

"An off-duty cop pretending to be a terrorist stormed into a hospital intensive care unit brandishing a handgun, which he pointed at nurses while herding them down a corridor and into a room.

There, after harrowing moments, he explained that the whole caper was a training exercise."

Did we forget to mention that the genius hospital administrators didn't bother to inform their hapless (and now emotionally scarred) employees before embarking on this boondoggle?

"The staff was supposed to have been told in advance of the exercise, but there was a 'disconnect,' [hospital spokesbuffoon Andy] North said. That won’t happen again, he said."

One would certainly hope not.  Especially after the expected onslaught of lawsuits that are surely forthcoming.

The "disconnect" appears to be between the ears of the heads of both the hospital as well as the local police department.  On what kind of an incompetent force does a cop (as well as his bosses, since they appear to have signed off on this little exercise) think it's showing perfectly good judgment to decide to traumatize innocent people in this fashion?

Nevada is a "shall-issue" state.  What if a staff person or visitor who happened to be lawfully carrying a firearm had seen this farce unfolding and had unwittingly (and properly) taken out the "actor"?  That Samaritan would no doubt now be facing charges of murdering a police officer, even though he or she certainly had a perfectly reasonable fear of death or great bodily harm to themselves and a number of other people at the time.

One wonders if that cop's handgun was loaded at the time of his "performance".  If so, he is guilty of both aggravated assault and the issuance of terroristic threats, and should be prosecuted accordingly.

See, this is why police officers are the only ones "professional" enough to carry guns in public.  Your average yokel peasant would probably decide to pull some kind of stupid, brainless stunt to test the reactions of....

Oh.  Never mind.