Elementary School Teacher Finds 9mm In 5-Year-Old’s Backpack

By Micah Rate

Irresponsibility and negligence do not help the cause of Second Amendment supporters and law-abiding, careful gun owners. Like anything, whether it be driving, drinking, or finances, people can be reckless and negligent to the point where they find themselves in a financial hole or someone gets seriously hurt, or even killed. Thankfully, for one set of parents, their poor decision-making didn’t result in the loss of life, but it probably scared the living daylights out of a Mississippi elementary school teacher.

While conducting a standard check on student backpacks, a teacher at Oak Park Elementary School found a 9mm handgun in a 5-year-old’s bag.

A teacher performing a routine check of students’ backpacks at Oak Park Elementary on Tuesday morning found a loaded 9mm handgun in one student’s bag, officials said.

The gun was taken, and officials notified the 5-year-old child’s parents after the discovery at about 10 a.m.

An investigation shows the child’s parents put the gun in the backpack while running errands over the weekend and forgot to take it out, Police Capt. William Jackson said.

Jackson said police have possession of the gun.

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Ocean Springs police were on the scene within five minutes, Schools Superintendent Bonita Coleman said. She declined …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms