*NO* one could have predicted THIS

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‘Armed security officer’ accidentally shoots student at Aurora school http://bit.ly/16atJvB (Raw Story)

____ A man who police said had a second job as an “armed security officer” was being investigated after he accidentally shot a student Rangeview High School in Aurora, Colorado on Monday.

According to KMGH-TV, a school employee who also has a second job as a security officer had offered a student a ride home at the end of the day. The gun discharged, hitting the student in the leg, when the school employee tried to secure his weapon in the glove box of the car.

The man took the student to a nearby hospital, where he was rushed into surgery with a “significant injury,” police said. The injuries were not expected to be fatal.

It was not immediately clear what type of work the man did for the school, but police said that he was not a teacher.


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. . .now IF he WAS a teacher, AND he had a gun . . .

[uponit7771]

1. YEAP!! THIS should be the front page story EVERYWHERE! I pray the district has good liability

...insurance, the payments on this one is going to smart

[TheFutureWillCome]

2. another

accident...WOW

[Buzz Clik]

3. The problem is that the victim was unarmed.

The answer: more guns. Lots of guns.

[southernyankeebelle]

4. OK everyone raise your hands if you didn't see this one coming. LOL

[rdharma]

5. Was this "school employee" carrying his gatt in the school?

I ask that because he was "securing the gun" when he accidently shot the student. Begs the question...... where was the gun BEFORE the student got in the car?

[Shankapotomus]

6. Because it isn't enough

the problem is killing us. The solution has to kill us too.

[dmr]

7. 'The Only Thing That Stops a Bad Guy With a Gun ....' Is an idiot with a gun?

This should not have been allowed to happen, & I hope with all my heart that we never hear anything worse happening in our schools.

[Bay Boy]

8. Just so many idiots around

And let me add he probably shouldn't have even been offering a ride to a student. There are just too many ways for that go bad even without the gun entering into the story.

[DrDan]

9. "the gun discharged" . . . hmmmmm - that seems contrary to what the gunners keep saying

[Bay Boy]

11. It's extremely unlikely

that the gun just discharged without some help from his trigger finger. A trigger finger that should not have been near the trigger while moving it to the glove box.

[Orrex]

19. Probably snagged it on his gun safety manual while putting it in the glove box

[Bay Boy]

23. Thread winner!

[malaise]

24. DUzy

[AtheistCrusader]

29. Why is he moving it to the glove box at all?

Isn't the idea of a concealed pistol not to ... reveal it? When I get into a car, I don't take my gun out and put it in the glove box IN FRONT OF THE PASSENGER. Shit, he could be presumed not to be in possession of the gun at all, leaving it there, meaning, it should be unloaded as well. (at least, in my state, you would)

That's why you just leave it where it is.

Every time you fuck around with a gun on your person, you introduce risk. That's how people drop guns and shoot themselves taking a shit, holstering a weapon they were showing to someone, etc. Don't do it. There's no REASON to do it. ESPECIALLY in this case, with a kid in the car, who will see it, who then is in closer proximity to it than the owner, etc.

This was just flat assed stupid.

[Bay Boy]

32. Ninja mall cop...

...showing off his weapon to the student.

[liberal N proud]

10. A wanna be cop/gun for hire, what could possibly go wrong?

[unblock]

12. fortunately, legs know the difference between terrorism bullets and accident bullets.

[stevenleser]

13. Totally to be expected. The answer isnt more guns, its get them out of our communities. nt

[bullwinkle428]

14. It's the NRA's dream to put one of these guys in EVERY school!

[denverbill]

15. Yes, but if everyone had a gun on them at all times, accidental discharges would be less common.

Somehow.

[randome]

16. Oh, come on.

If the student had been armed -and properly trained- he could have whipped out his gun, fired and deflected that bullet from the glove compartment quite handily.

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[duhneece]

17. I'm shocked and dismayed

Yeah, right. Sarcasm thingy.

[uppityperson]

18. "The gun discharged..when..tried to secure weapon in glove box"?

[RedstDem]

20. please don't blame the nra for the actions of

An armed glove box. If the students leg also had a gun, this would have gone down differently.

[SomethingFishy]

21. Why was he offering a student a ride?

That alone seems odd to me...

[Orrex]

25. Yeah, that's pretty messed up

I don't know that I'd be comfortable having my daughter driven home from school by some random jackass who sounds like he shouldn't have been on school property in the first place!

[AtheistCrusader]

30. Especially not someone who would

leave a gun in closer proximity to a child, than to themselves.

There's just no damn reason for him to have done this. Like ok, you were going to put it in the glove compartment in front of a kid? Tell me more about your idiotic line of logic BEFORE you pulled the trigger.

[Mr. X]

22. Wow...

So much for the NRA's comment about the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy for a gun. So far the only thing the good guy with a gun has done is harm a student. Really - With good guys like these, who needs bad guys?

[Kelvin Mace]

26. So, gun became sentient and decided to shoot someone?

I think the real story will is "I was dicking around with a loaded firearm and shot someone."

[apples and oranges]

27. In this case, getting shot may have been a blessing in disguise

Offering a student a ride home? Pedophile much?

[Kalidurga]

28. I think the solution is obvious...

we have to stop arming glove boxes and purses. They are rarely responsible in the way they handle firearms.

[pugetres]

31. Another link states that the security guard won't be charged

since "legal for him to have the gun." http://kwgn.com/2013/05/13/police-staff-worker-accidentally-shoots-student-outside-rangeview-h-s/

So, does that mean that when I'm legally driving my licensed car and I accidently kill someone when I hit the gas instead of the break, I won't be charged?

Why do these idiots keep getting a pass as long as they kill with a gun?

[caseymoz]

33. According to the NRA

the security guard should have also had a gun in his other hand two his pockets, and one in his sock. Then something magical would have taken place and the rate of gun accidents, suicides and homicides would go down.

Guns: they make good people gooder.

[etherealtruth]

34. More GUNZ

[rucky]

35. But did he do it responsibly?

[ManiacJoe]

36. Another Four Rules failure.

[Thor_MN]

37. Can't we the NTSB to advocate for only good glove boxes in cars?

Or maybe TWO gloveboxes so that the good one could prevent the bad one from shooting passengers?

[samsingh]

38. if the victim had been armed he could have shot the security guard

how serious are gun lovers when they promote these flawed ideas?