School Teacher’s Gun Goes Off In Class, One Student Injured

By Micah Rate

On Tuesday, Bearing Arms reported on the negligence of a school resource officer and a Michigan sheriff and how their irresponsibility with firearms is influencing the debate on whether or not school teachers should be allowed to carry on the job. Now a California teacher, who is also a reserve police officer, is in trouble after bringing a firearm to school and accidentally firing it. One student was injured.

Here’s more on the story from The Washington Post:

A teacher who is also a reserve police officer trained in firearm use accidentally discharged a gun Tuesday at Seaside High School in Monterey County, Calif., during a class devoted to public safety. A male student was reported to have sustained non-life-threatening injuries.

The weapon, which was not described, was pointed at the ceiling, according to a statement from the school, and debris fell from the ceiling.

Seaside Police Chief Abdul Pridgen told the Monterey County Weekly that a male student was “struck in the neck by ‘debris or fragmentation’ from something overhead.” Pridgen said whatever hit the student was not a bullet.

However, the student’s father, Fermin Gonzales, told KSBW 8 that …Read the Rest

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