A California teacher trained in firearm use accidentally fired his gun during a class demonstration on gun safety on Tuesday, resulting in a student getting injured.
The teacher, identified by police as Dennis Alexander, offers a public safety class at Seaside High School in Seaside, California.
According to the Monterey County Weekly, Alexander’s gun accidentally fired as he was pointing it toward the ceiling during a firearm safety presentation. Bullet fragments ricocheted and struck a student in the neck, causing non-life threatening injuries.
The student was rushed to the hospital after school when his parents noticed blood on his shirt.
Alexander has been placed on administrative leave, according to a statement from the school. The statement said teacher was also a “reserve police officer.”
MPUSD is reporting no one was injured when a teacher accidentally discharged a firearm in class today. A letter has been sent to Seaside High School parents and I've included a screenshot of that letter below. The teacher, who is not being identified, was placed on leave. pic.twitter.com/hmd6Q504gq
— Caitlin Conrad (@CaitlinKSBW) March 13, 2018
The school district superintendent told the Weekly that Alexander was not authorized to carry a firearm on campus.
This latest incident comes as President Donald Trump pushes for arming teachers as a solution for preventing school shootings.
Here’s Trump’s specially talented teacher with a gun.
Good thing nobody was hurt.
100% guarantee that every RWer will be calling this a false flag by dinner tonight.
neg·li·gence
noun
failure to take proper care in doing something.
“some of these accidents are due to negligence”
LAW
failure to use reasonable care, resulting in damage or injury to another.
IANAL but it seems like more than an “accident” to me.
Let me get this straight. A reserve police officer teaches a class on ‘public safety’, is giving a ‘gun safety’ demonstration, and accidentally shoots the ceiling, and a student gets hurt from a ricocheting bullet fragment that strikes the student in the neck.
Gee, good thing he wasn’t giving an AR15 safety demonstration. And how does a good guy with a gun fit into saving the injured kid in this scenario?
Not quite. One of the students wound up with bullet fragments lodged in his neck, requiring medical treatment AFTER he got home from school. :-/