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Norman Eckel was frustrated. By the winter of 2005, he’d been teaching business classes at Bowling Green State University for 26 years and felt that students “had gotten worse and worse” over the years, according to court records.

So when a student walked into his 11:30 a.m. accounting class 15 minutes before the hour-long class was to end, you might say Eckel flipped. From court records:

[Eckel] then turned to the rest of the class, pointed his finger like a gun, put it to his own head, said “duh,” and then said no, he should “shoot  you guys.” [Eckel] continued, telling the class he should shoot the whole class with his AK-47, and “two clips ought to do it.”

Some students laughed. Some didn’t.

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