6 year old shoots teacher

[Deleted member 586536]

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/06/us/newport-news-school-shooting-virginia.html
......
Well... this is a way to start 2023 i guess.
Tl;dr it's exactly as the headline reads, 6 year old shoots teacher, teacher sustained critical injuries. How the kid got the gun there (or at all), or knew how to shoot it, beyond me.

 

[Marc_LFD]

Kids tend to play with toy guns as it's fun, but real ones need to be kept well secured so they don't have access to it. Hopefully she'll be alright and so will the child (more in terms of hearing as it could affect).

Anyway, if anyone wants to read the article without the stupid paywall, just install this: https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome

 

[Deleted member 586536]

Kids tend to play with toy guns as it's fun, but real ones need to be kept well secured so they don't have access to it. Hopefully she'll be alright and so will the child (more in terms of hearing as it could affect).

Anyway, if anyone wants to read the article without the stupid paywall, just install this: https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome

I've been using that extension (firefox version)
(What? you actually thought I paid for their bullshit? uh, hell no, I don't got the money for that)

 

[Windaga]

Our Board of Ed has been all over the place these past few years; every time a shooting happens (that garners attention in the news and local parenting communities..), we get called into a "brain storming" zoom meeting about preventing situations like this from happening in our district.

...which promptly devolves into a sloppy, 90 minute name calling and finger pointing match about gun control, arming our staff, installing metal detectors, doing mandatory home interviews, etc.

When we did the follow up on this situation though, it was pretty quick and quiet. Even our loud "arm the teachers" group had difficulty wrapping their head around having to shoot a 6 year old. It's so terrible.

 

[RHOPKINS13]

This hit a little too close to home for me. I actually live in Newport News. We started homeschooling my son when the pandemic hit, but before that he was going to another elementary school that's right around the corner from the one the shooting happened at.

This is insane. I have VERY strong views regarding guns, but how the hell does a 6-year-old end up going to school with one?!?! Multiple failures at multiple points, but I do believe the vast majority of the blame is on the parents for this one. Also, I haven't seen any article that mentioned what sort of gun it is, but if it's anything like a glock those take quite a bit of strength just to cock. So not only did a 6-year-old manage to get a loaded gun, it may have also been pre-cocked for them.

Meanwhile boomers on Nextdoor in our neighborhood are all blaming the violent video games. It's a friggin' 6-year-old. Most 6 year olds are playing games like Mario, not Call of Duty.

EDIT: Correction, it was a 9mm Taurus
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-new...dents-safety-was-shot-6-year-old-of-rcna64938

ANOTHER EDIT: Many of you probably aren't aware of this, but we had another school shooting in Newport News not that long ago at Heritage High School, in September 2021. This is embarrassing, why the hell weren't metal detectors installed at every school entrance shortly after that?!?!

 

[Hanafuda]

A parent, older sibling, or whoever it was who left a deadly weapon accessible to a 6 year old child should be going to prison over this. It won't happen, but that's what should happen.

 

[Deleted member 586536]

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/25/us/newport-news-shooting-teacher-superintendent-school-board.html
So it was reported 3 times that the child had the gun apparently.

 

[JackTheHorse]

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/25/us/newport-news-shooting-teacher-superintendent-school-board.html
So it was reported 3 times that the child had the gun apparently.

Sorry but if a 6 years old shows me a gun the first thing I'm doing is taking it from him as soon as it's not pointed anywhere dangerous. Who sees it and thinks "/r/notmyjob"? This is stupid.

 

[chrisrlink]

This hit a little too close to home for me. I actually live in Newport News. We started homeschooling my son when the pandemic hit, but before that he was going to another elementary school that's right around the corner from the one the shooting happened at.

This is insane. I have VERY strong views regarding guns, but how the hell does a 6-year-old end up going to school with one?!?! Multiple failures at multiple points, but I do believe the vast majority of the blame is on the parents for this one. Also, I haven't seen any article that mentioned what sort of gun it is, but if it's anything like a glock those take quite a bit of strength just to cock. So not only did a 6-year-old manage to get a loaded gun, it may have also been pre-cocked for them.

Meanwhile boomers on Nextdoor in our neighborhood are all blaming the violent video games. It's a friggin' 6-year-old. Most 6 year olds are playing games like Mario, not Call of Duty.

EDIT: Correction, it was a 9mm Taurus
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-new...dents-safety-was-shot-6-year-old-of-rcna64938

ANOTHER EDIT: Many of you probably aren't aware of this, but we had another school shooting in Newport News not that long ago at Heritage High School, in September 2021. This is embarrassing, why the hell weren't metal detectors installed at every school entrance shortly after that?!?!

cool nice to meet another local on here, anyways there story about the gun being locked up can be plausable i mean at 5 or 6 i was cracking my moms pc passwords so if i could crack computer passwords at his age pretty sure he is smart enough to get the gun from a lockbox

 

[CommanderCool]

guns are for retards

 

[chrisrlink]

guns are for retards

i agree cause it makes most of the GOP retarded just look at their track record just from 2020 onwards alone

 

[JackTheHorse]

cool nice to meet another local on here, anyways there story about the gun being locked up can be plausable i mean at 5 or 6 i was cracking my moms pc passwords so if i could crack computer passwords at his age pretty sure he is smart enough to get the gun from a lockbox

I highly doubt that someone whom can't spell "plausible" could "crack pc passwords". Unless your mom used a 4 digits PIN. In that case congratulations for knowing your mom's birthday.

 

[Deleted member 586536]

I highly doubt that someone whom can't spell "plausible" could "crack pc passwords". Unless your mom used a 4 digits PIN. In that case congratulations for knowing your mom's birthday.

Intelligence isn't marked by how many words you can spell right on the first try(though closely linked), it's generally marked at how efficiently you communicate ideas.

Figured I should say that since, your basically using a "Commenter spelled something incorrectly so they must = stupid."

 

[lolcatzuru]

i agree cause it makes most of the GOP retarded just look at their track record just from 2020 onwards alone

lol "self defense is retarded" man i will say, one good thing to come out of communism is radical group think.

 

[chrisrlink]

I highly doubt that someone whom can't spell "plausible" could "crack pc passwords". Unless your mom used a 4 digits PIN. In that case congratulations for knowing your mom's birthday.

it was actually her middle name which i got through social engineering my dad face to face no phishing required

 

[titan_tim]

Kids tend to play with toy guns as it's fun, but real ones need to be kept well secured so they don't have access to it. Hopefully she'll be alright and so will the child (more in terms of hearing as it could affect).

Anyway, if anyone wants to read the article without the stupid paywall, just install this: https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome

How did I now know about this! Awesome plugin!

 

[Xzi]

A parent, older sibling, or whoever it was who left a deadly weapon accessible to a 6 year old child should be going to prison over this. It won't happen, but that's what should happen.

The parents claim they had the gun "secured." Apparently the definition of that word for some people is having it placed on a high shelf or in a cabinet under the kitchen sink.