StrikerAug 9, 2023

6 year old who shot teacher bragged about it

https://lemmy.world/post/2925739

6 year old who shot teacher bragged about it - Lemmy.world

The six-year-old student who shot his teacher in the US earlier this year, boasted about the incident saying “I shot [her] dead”, unsealed court documents show. While being restrained after the shooting at a Virginia school, the boy is said to have admitted “I did it”, adding “I got my mom’s gun last night”. His teacher, Abigail “Abby” Zwerner - who survived - filed a $40m (£31.4m) lawsuit earlier this year. The boy has not been charged. The boy’s mother, however, Deja Taylor, has been charged with felony child neglect and misdemeanour recklessly leaving a loaded firearm as to endanger a child. In Ms Zwerner’s lawsuit, filed in April, she accuses school officials of gross negligence for ignoring warning signs and argues the defendants knew the child "had a history of random violence The documents also mention another incident with the same student while he was in kindergarten. A retired teacher told police he started “choking her to the point she could not breathe”.

Show threadMonsiuerPatEBrownAug 9, 2023

This is why some US Americans want armed teachers ?

To shoot back at 6 year olds ?

Show threadbe_excellent_to_each_otherAug 9, 2023

Yes but they seem to be forgetting the very obvious thing that will happen (and has already happened) when you have more guns being brought into schools, even by those you (misguidedly) trust.

For some reason they don't seem to be able to get that not having guns in or anywhere near a school is the best way not to have shootings at schools.

That article highlights just one obvious problem. Here are others:

  • We can't even rely on our cops to shoot only the people who need to be shot. Now we're going to trust that teachers will be able to perform better under those stresses - which may include the need to shoot one of their own students - than cops do? How on earth does that track?

  • Legal gun owners go on shooting sprees too Really easy for you when you are already whitelisted to be showing up to school armed.

  • A variation on the article I linked: Careless teacher with a gun leaves it in the bathroom and kid finds it and shoots themselves and/or others with it instead of turning it in.

Texas superintendent resigns after 3rd grader finds his gun unattended in a school bathroom

Rising Star, Texas, Independent School District Superintendent Robby Stuteville resigned after a third-grade student found his gun unattended in an elementary school bathroom.

NBC News
Show threadFlying Squid

Legal gun owners go on shooting sprees too.

And teachers have to deal with an incredibly stressful situation all day which ever-restrictive Republican education laws in many states make even more stressful. Put guns in the mix and one of them will go postal one day.

Aug 10, 2023 at 9:56amWeb