Teacher, reserve cop accidentally fires gun in class, police say
SEASIDE, Calif. -- A teacher accidentally fired a gun inside a classroom here on Tuesday afternoon and a student was slightly hurt, authorities said. Dennis Alexander was teaching public safety for his Administration of Justice class in Seaside High School when a shot went off around 1:20 p.m., reports CBS Monterey, California affiliate KION-TV.
Alexander is also a reserve police officer for Sand City Police, authorities said.
Alexander "accidentally discharged his firearm into the ceiling," said Seaside Police Chief Abdul Pridgen.
Though the gun didn't shoot anyone directly, "Fragments from the bullet struck a student in the neck," Pridgen said.
The Monterey Peninsula Unified School District put him on administrative leave.
"Upon learning of the incident, school site administration, the District Office, and the Seaside Police Department immediately began investigating, including interviewing students in the class. It was determined that there was no immediate threat to students or staff, and school remained in session," the district said in a statement.
"My God, [it's] good that it went up to the ceiling -- what if someone, somehow, got hit?" parent Halie Martinez remarked to KION. "There should be precautions when it comes to that."
Seaside Police say they don't need to be notified when a gun is being used in class, but they told KION bringing a gun into a classroom is unusual.
"Best practice is you don't take live firearms into a classroom," Chief Pridgen said. "You take what is called a dummy gun, which looks like a real gun but you can't even put a magazine in it and you certainly can't put bullets in it. I'm not sure what circumstances led to a firearm being used in this class."
The district said in a statement that, " California law prohibits firearms on campus, and MPUSD's Board of Education policy prohibits any person other than authorized law enforcement or security personnel from possessing weapons, imitation firearms, or dangerous instruments of any kind in school buildings, on school grounds or buses, or at a school-related or school-sponsored activity away from school, or while going to or coming from school."
It wasn't clear whether Alexander had broken that law or those district policies.
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But that's impossible! Guns belong in schools, and gun accidents are a myth!
And the teachers need to be packing! And a good guy with a gun stops the bad guy - every time!
I guess this guy wasn't "talented" enough with his guns. It should be easy to sort the untalented ones out, right? Apparently, being a reserve police officer doesn't necessarily mean you are talented with your guns.
Guns belong in schools as much as pedophiles belong in schools.
Remember, the only thing that can stop a bad pedophile in a school is a good pedophile in a school.
-Roy Moore, 2018 Campaign slogan
What could possibly go wrong with teachers having guns
So what is your solution to stop school shootings? Think real hard and come up with effective and practical ideas that make sense.
You think long and hard on the fact that arming teachers is NOT a solution.
And it never will be.
Serious, hardcore, comprehensive gun control. The kind that pisses the fuck off of the NRA!
As a start, how about making it as hard to buy a gun, as you want it to vote.
Right back at ya!
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He said effective and practical. That is neither. The only form of gun control that would be effective would be total confiscation of all firearms. Anything else would not keep potential shooters from getting guns, legally or illegally, whenever they wished. It would simply ensure that the honest people wouldn't be able to shoot back.
Total confiscation would also not be practical. Not only would it violate the Second Amendment but it would also violate the Fourth Amendment's prohibitions regarding search and seizure, and would also quite likely engender armed resistance. It would also cause the entire Constitution to come into disrepute since it would clearly demonstrate that the government will only follow the rules when it's convenient for the government. Any Constitutional restrictions would simply be swept aside to achieve the goals that the government wants as though the Constitution didn't even exist. Since the Constitution is the source of government legitimacy, disregarding it, in whole or in part, would cause the government to lose its right to exist. The government would then become no more than a group of armed thugs, holding power through nothing but the force of arms.
There is a simple choice to be made. Try to keep the potential shooters from the weapons through gun control, the only effective means of which would likely do more harm than good (it would be unlikely to do any good at all); or keep the potential shooters from their intended victims, which is not only effective but is not that difficult to accomplish. HARDEN THE TARGETS. That could (and probably should) include armed guards. Whether that would include armed teachers or guards (non uniformed) who are hired specifically for that job (to include having police officers assigned to the schools) is a legitimate subject for debate. Whether to harden the school, to include a single, secure entrance with access only through airport type security, is not subject to debate. It is clearly the best solution and, unlike gun control, it will actually work. The cost would, of course, be pretty heavy, but how valuable are your children when compared to money?
If the people who are calling for keeping children safe now turn immediately back to gun control as a (bound to fail) solution, that tells me that either they really don't understand the problem, are unable to think clearly, or that their agenda is different than that of keeping children safe, and may not be in accordance with the principles under which the American government was established.
A.W.B., a-h.
Wait for it*---gun freaks are going to start claiming this was a deliberate act to make their shit-for-brains idea for arming teachers look bad.
*or has it happened already and I missed it?
I'm sure the false flag has been planted somewhere by now.