[News] 6 (SIX!) year old shoots teacher…in America, obviously

[portlock seagull]

Teacher in critical condition after altercation with a handgun wielding infant!! I mean, you can’t make this stuff up really. Six year old, with a handgun. At school.

Newport News: Boy aged six detained after shooting teacher in US

The teacher is left with life-threatening injuries after the shooting in the state of Virginia.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

So absurd. Surely a further justification for more Americans to bear arms to protect themselves against this sort of thing, because if you don’t have a gun how the heck are you supposed to kill other Americans who do before they kill you?

 

[bhafc99]

So absurd. Surely a further justification for more Americans to bear arms to protect themselves against this sort of thing, because if you don’t have a gun how the heck are you supposed to kill other Americans who do before they kill you?

Exactly. Thank the good lord he was confronted by an adult, because what if he'd shot at his fellow pupils first? The only answer is for ALL six year olds to start attending school fully armed and thus able to defend themselves in these circumstances – it's amazing that Americans can't see this.

 

[Couldn't Be Hyypia]

This is worth a watch.

The Lost Class | D&AD Annual 2022

The National Rifle Association (NRA) spends $250 million annually to advocate for pro-gun legislation. How do you fight for common sense gun laws while facing such a powerful Goliath? One idea was to hold a graduation ceremony for The Lost Class, the 3,044 students who would have graduated this...

www.dandad.org

Member of the gun lobby makes speech to "the class of 2021" - the 3,000 American children who would have graduated that year had they not been killed by guns.

 

[Insel affe]

Shocking but not surprising, on first reading the article, I read Redneck Eliminatory School.

 

[Scappa]

Thoughts, prayers, never would have happened if they had armed guards on the doors etc.

 

[Live by the sea]

We need to change our legislation to make carrying a gun illegal but unfortunately no president will do that because of our amendment and pressure from the powerful gun lobby . What might have been necessary 209 years ago is clearly not needed now . Folks should not be walking about with guns like it’s normal .

USA needs to follow UK’s example on this .

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Shocking but not surprising, on first reading the article, I read Redneck Eliminatory School.

I did as well!

There‘s so much which is f***ed up about this news item:

“Mr Drew said the incident was not "an accidental shooting".”

“Mr Drew emphasised that the shooting had been an isolated incident and stressed that officers "did not have a situation where someone was going around the school shooting".” - phew, a toddler on the rampage doesn’t bear thinking about.

“the school had metal detection facilities, students were checked at random and not every child was inspected.” - WTF, schools checking pupils for guns.

 

[AmexRuislip]

Just imagine his parents checking the 6 YO has got their packed lunch.

Mum to dad:
"Sandwiches" check
"Banana" check
"OJ" check
"Money for field trip" check
"Colt 45" check

 

[Motogull]

This is disturbing stuff and arguably raises the WTF bar even higher.

If you have more guns than people, military level arms freely available and unlimited ammunition it is inevitable that (a) nutjobs will go on killing sprees and (b) sloppiness will see toddlers getting hands on loaded shooters and firing them.

This hints at a child of send year in primary school deciding to take out a teacher he was pissed off at. Is that becoming normal through their eyes such is the general state of affairs and what they are used to seeing and hearing? We know they have guns designed for toddlers and some learn to shoot very young.

Things have to change.

 

[Stat Brother]

This is disturbing stuff and arguably raises the WTF bar even higher.

If you have more guns than people, military level arms freely available and unlimited ammunition it is inevitable that (a) nutjobs will go on killing sprees and (b) sloppiness will see toddlers getting hands on loaded shooters and firing them.

This hints at a child of send year in primary school deciding to take out a teacher he was pissed off at. Is that becoming normal through their eyes such is the general state of affairs and what they are used to seeing and hearing? We know they have guns designed for toddlers and some learn to shoot very young.

Things have to change.

I'd argue against that, this isn't WTF.
This is natural progression from allowing 20 children of the same age to be slaughtered in their school, 10 years ago.
Doing nothing up to that point and then in the aftermath just makes America what it is today.

Every shooting after Sandy Hook is just natural progression.

Still they've always got Thoughts and Prayers so it's not entirely worthless.

 

[Gabbafella]

Nothing new.

https://www.nytimes.com/2000/03/01/us/boy-6-accused-in-classmate-s-killing.html

9-year old boy cause of accidental school shooting - World News

A frightened 9-year-old boy accused of accidentally shooting a classmate sat before a judge in juvenile...

www.hurriyetdailynews.com

I'm sure all the thoughts and prayers will sort this out though.

 

[Neville's Breakfast]

I wouldn’t teach if we had American gun laws. I seem to remember some idea over there about arming teachers (after one school shooting). I wouldn’t do that either.

 

[Zeberdi]

Every one talks about Sandy Hook but prior to that, The Virginia Tech 2007 shooting by a 23 yr old resulted in 33 deaths including 28 students, Columbine 1999, 15 killled - Sandy Hook 2012 changed in schools nothing other than increasing building security- no background checks still in some States, 1 in 18 kids taking guns to school (with or with parents permission), more and more teachers being armed so even more guns going into schools to ‘deal’ with gun violence - Parkland 2018 - 17 kids killed, and 20 kids at Ulvade, Texas last year.

But that’s what you get in a Country that treats the right to bear arms as the Holy Cow of it’s Constitution. Problem is young kids and toddlers are becoming intentional or accidental killers with alarming regularity because they are getting their hands on their parents guns -

- Just a few examples quickly pulled down from the net:

Aged 4 bringing a gun to school

Father charged after 4-year-old allegedly brought loaded gun to school

The child brought the gun to John F. Kennedy Elementary School in Corpus Christi Wednesday where it was confiscated by a police officer at the campus, district officials said.

www.nbcnews.com

Or this - an accident ok but a 2 year old!?

Mom fatally shot when son, 2, grabs gun from her purse in Walmart | CNN

A mother, 29, was killed in an Idaho Walmart when her 2-year-old son in the shopping cart grabbed a gun from her purse and accidentally shot her.

edition.cnn.com

Another accident- this time a 5yr old

5-year-old boy finds gun, shoots baby brother in head | CNN

A Missouri mother called 911 to say her 5-year-old boy shot his baby brother with a paintball gun. In reality, it was a .22-caliber Magnum revolver

edition.cnn.com

Not an accident - 10 yr old shoots Mom

Charges: Wisconsin boy, 10, killed mom over VR headset

Prosecutors say a 10-year-old Milwaukee boy aimed a gun at his mother, then shot and killed her, because she would not buy him a virtual reality headset

abcnews.go.com

This time another toddler

Toddler fatally shoots 4-year-old sister at Pennsylvania gas station

The community of Chester is "just heartbroken to think of what happened to this poor child,” an official said.

www.nbcnews.com

 

[Neville's Breakfast]

I did as well!

There‘s so much which is f***ed up about this news item:

“Mr Drew said the incident was not "an accidental shooting".”

“Mr Drew emphasised that the shooting had been an isolated incident and stressed that officers "did not have a situation where someone was going around the school shooting".” - phew, a toddler on the rampage doesn’t bear thinking about.

“the school had metal detection facilities, students were checked at random and not every child was inspected.” - WTF, schools checking pupils for guns.

Whilst I agree with your sentiments, that part of your post isn’t confined to America. My wife used to go through metal detectors in schools in Peckham 30 years ago albeit they were there to detect knives not guns. I haven’t worked in a school with metal detectors and luckily have never felt threatened in that way. I’m not sure why American teachers take the risk tbh.

 

[happypig]

What makes people safer, no guns or many guns ? Very many Americans seem unable to consider this and revert to "Its my constitutional right".

 

[zefarelly]

America is a lost cause. At war with themselves. As long as they stay there its good with me.

 

[WATFORD zero]

Old, but still so true

 

[chickens]

As others have suggested, what it needed was his classmates to have guns so they could take him out, and anyone else they suspected of not being their best friends. Go America!

Thoughts and prayers, thoughts and prayers…

 

[Justice]

What makes people safer, no guns or many guns ? Very many Americans seem unable to consider this and revert to "Its my constitutional right".

The Missus and I would have easily shot each other by now if we were living in America with some of the kick offs we’ve had in the past. Fortunately we all cool off and tommorow’s another day without any bloodshed.