The Ignored Reality Of California ‘Teacher’ Who Discharged Firearm In Class

By Tom Knighton

I’m not a tinfoil hat kind of guy, but if I were, I’d be freaking out about how we start talking about arming teachers and suddenly there are teachers discharging weapons in class. Luckily, I’m not. I also understand that these incidents are happening in states where teachers aren’t permitted to carry on school property as a general rule, such as the teacher in Georgia recently.

More recently, however, a teacher in California discharged a weapon in class. The bullet supposedly fragmented and one fragment hit a student.

A teacher at a California high school who accidentally fired his gun during a class, reportedly injuring three students, was not authorized to have a gun at school, officials said.

Dennis Alexander, a teacher at Seaside High School and reserve officer with the Sand City Police Department, was teaching an “Administration of Justice” class Tuesday when he reportedly pointed his firearm at the ceiling during a lesson and accidentally shot it.

Police told The Associated Press that Alexander had pointed his gun at the ceiling to make sure it was not loaded when the weapon discharged.

The Monterey Peninsula Unified School District said that Alexander was not authorized to have a …Read the Rest

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