Teacher accidentally fires gun and injures student during safety lesson

[workinclasszero]

Teacher accidentally fires gun and injures student during safety lesson
By Nicole Chavez and Cheri Mossburg, CNN Updated 10:26 AM ET, Wed March 14, 2018

(CNN)-A teacher accidentally discharged a firearm while teaching a public safety class, injuring one student at a Northern California school on Tuesday, police said.

Dennis Alexander, who is Seaside City's mayor pro tem and a reserve officer with the Sand City Police Department, was teaching a lesson at Seaside High School in Seaside, California when he pointed his gun into the ceiling and accidentally fired it, said Abdul Pridgen, the city's police chief.

A 17-year-old student was injured by a bullet fragment or by debris that fell off the ceiling, Pridgen said.
The student's injuries appeared superficial and were not life threatening, police said.

Alexander has been placed on administrative leave from his teaching job, a spokesperson with the Monterey Peninsula Unified School District said.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/14/us/california-teacher-fires-gun/index.html

[HopeAgain]

1. Guns in schools - What could go wrong?

[workinclasszero]

2. IKR?

The teacher is a ten year police reserve vet, trained in gun handling and safety as well.

If we arm teachers all over the country kids will be hurt, shot and some will probably lose their life because of it.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

3. IKR? If TRAINED LEOs can't handle guns safely

how in the hell are we going to trust even lesser-trained individuals with guns? TrumpNRA are clueless idiots for suggesting this amazingly stupid idea.

[workinclasszero]

4. But it sells MOR GUNZ

Which is all the republicans and their terror arm, the NRA care about!

[Proud Liberal Dem]

5. Exactly

And, in the cases of schools, it's taxpayer subsidized (presumably)!

[workinclasszero]

7. I'm sure you are right about that as well

Damn the bastards make teachers pay for school supplies out of their own pocket now.

But they will be buying 500 dollar 9mm for them, you bet!

The NRA arms dealers will be laughing all the way to the bank!

[dalton99a]

6. A teacher who is also a cop

Definitely a "highly trained expert teacher"

[workinclasszero]

8. Yup and he damned near killed his own students

[Blue Owl]

9. Safety Last

n/t

[workinclasszero]

10. Go to YouTube and search for: police accidental discharge

It will return about 3,680 results.

Now imagine hundreds of thousands of armed teachers in every school in America who will not even be trained as much as these cops were.

Children are going to die by their own teachers if Trump and the NRA force guns into our schools.