Kids Injured as School Cop Shoots Gun in a Class—Officials Cover It Up, Wounded Kid Blows Whistle

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Alexandria, Va – This Tuesday morning, a teacher who also serves as a  reserve police officer accidentally fired his gun at a school in  Seaside, California, while instructing a class on firearms safety. Three students were injured, and one was hospitalized, but the school  did not report the incident, nor did they notify the parents or seek  medical help for the injured children. 

The most badly injured of the  three went home to his father covered in blood with a serious wound, and  bullet fragments lodged into his neck According to Seaside Police Cheif Abdul Pridgen, officer Dennis  Alexander was pointing the gun at the ceiling when he accidentally  fired, sending bullet fragments to ricochet across the classroom. 

The  school resumed classes as normal and later told reporters that the  students had minor injuries, but one father disagrees. Fermin Gonzales, the father of the 17-year-old boy who was  hospitalized, said that the school never notified parents about the  incident. 

“He’s shaken up, but he’s going to be OK. I’m just pretty upset  that no one told us anything and we had to call the police ourselves to  report it,” Gonzales told KSBW

“It’s the craziest thing. It could have been very bad,” Gonzales added. 

According to Seaside Superintendent PK Diffenbaugh, this was not an authorized course. 

“I think a lot of questions on parents’ minds are, why a teacher  would be pointing a loaded firearm at the ceiling in front of students.  Clearly in this incident protocols were not followed,” Diffenbaugh said. 

Seaside High School is a gun free zone, but exceptions are made for members of law enforcement. The mainstream media is complicit in the attempted coverup of this  issue, with many outlets overlooking the fact that this teacher was a  police officer. 

Instead, they are using this as an opportunity to point  out that guns are dangerous. It is obvious that guns are dangerous, and that is why they should be  handled with care, but cases like this illustrate that police officers  are no more safe with guns than the average person. 

Therefore, it makes  no sense to suggest that police should be the only ones allowed with  guns.  Meanwhile, on the same day, on the other side of the country, in Alexandria, Virginia, another school resource officer accidentally fired  his gun while inside his office at George Washington Middle School.  

According to the Alexandria Police Department, the officer was sitting  down while it was discharged, and that no one was hurt. They would not  say whether or not the gun was in the holster, but if the gun was fired,  it is safe to assume that it was not in the holster. 

Contrary to how the rest of the media is reporting these incidents  guns do not simply “go off” by themselves. With modern handguns, this is not possible.   

“I just think it was an accident that happened, and we’re going  to investigate it and find out, and we’re going to move forward,” Capt. D.C. Hayes told NBC. 

Imagine if another adult or child who is not a cop did the same  thing. The school would be on lock down, helicopters would be swarming  the air and the person who fired the shot—”accidentally” or not—would be  taken out with extreme prejudice. Instead, this is just written off  with very little media coverage because the “gunman” was a public  servant. 

The Captain would not say if there were any students nearby, only  that no students were injured and that classes continued as normal after  it was determined that everyone was safe. It is important to reiterate that in both of these cases the issue  was swept under the rug because the guns were fired by police. 

In every  other case where there is even a possible sighting of a gun, schools are  locked down, parents are called, and classes are canceled. It is also important to point out the convenient timing of guns being  accidentally fired in schools as America debates putting guns in  schools. 

Since the debate began, there have been several instances of  guns being fired “accidentally” in schools across America. 


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Are you sure that's not a hickey? I've seen worse hickeys.

that police officers are no more safe with guns than the average person.

Statistically they are much less safe with guns than the average person.

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Very good points. I would only add an appeal to extend your understanding of firearms safety a bit.

" It is obvious that guns are dangerous, and that is why they should be handled with care."

I point out that it is the most dangerous things that should be taught most rigorously, and this is why I began teaching my kids to drive (actually letting them drive on private property vehicles they purchased themselves) use chainsaws, and firearms, from a young age.

I had no worries about them using such technologies when I no longer had control over the circumstances in which they encountered them, after they turned 18. The US used to have ubiquitous marksmanship clubs in almost every school in the country, in the postwar period. The federal government still has, IIRC, programs to sell surplus military small arms to such clubs at discounts to encourage civilian marksmanship.

It's hard to characterize such training as harmful, or increasing the danger of firearms misuse. In fact it is blatantly obvious that lack of training is what is most dangerous about firearms. Want kids to be safe from firearms accidents, or psychopaths intent on shooting them? Teach kids how to use them, and then arm them.

They'll keep us safe. Our kids are heroes. Teach them how to, and trust them to do it.

Thanks!

I had a link in @newsagg yesterday about this in the mainstream media section. The Washington Post actually reported on this, but as far as I know they didn't bother to mention the reserve police officer bit.

yup..how convenient that they called attention to the "teacher" aspect of the story amid the debate on arming teachers...a reserve officer firing a gun wouldnt spark a debate on gun control lol

Reserve officers are not required to keep quite as strict a standard as active duty. So hard to say how legit this is. Though it is important to remember that humans can be stupid regardless of what type of clothes they wear, and what labels society decides to give them.

I've had to help a lady working on her 3rd PhD before and I was astonished she even had one because she was an extremely inept person.

If her doctorates were in arrogance then that I could have believed. Yet as far as I know they don't have that degree as the special treat inside the cracker jacks boxes we call universities.

This was poorly handled!!!!! For crying out, what if someone was killed? Whatever happened to safety catch!!!! Lets thank God nobody was killed but they learn a lesson from this

Some firearms don't have safeties.

The most important safety is training, and clearly waving a loaded firearm around in a room full of kids isn't what armed people are taught to do absent existential danger.

Were those kids properly trained in firearms use, they'd probably have pointed that out to their instructor. Mine have no problem holding me to account.

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