Posted on 02/02/2018 3:00:37 PM PST by BenLurkin
Jordan Valenzuela, a 12-year-old classmate of the girl’s, told The Associated Press he was in the room next door when the gun went off and talked to her minutes later.
“She was crying,” Jordan said. “She was like, ‘I didn’t mean to. I had the gun in my backpack and I didn’t know it was loaded and my backpack fell and the gun went off.'”
Jordan said he saw a hole in the backpack, which the girl was holding, when she asked him to hide the gun for her.
“I said ‘No,'” he said. “Then I moved away from her because I was a little bit scared.”
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Most accidental shootings involve someone actually handling firearms, as opposed to guns getting dropped, said Pete Gagliardi, a former longtime agent with the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.
“It’s pretty rare to hear about an incident like this,” Gagliardi said of Thursday’s shooting.
He said the gun wouldn’t necessarily had to have been cocked to go off in the girl’s backpack, but mostly likely would have had to have become entangled with something inside the bag for the trigger to have been pressed.
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Saw in my local rag it’s an accident. Okay what is a 12 year old doing carrying a gun in her back pack in a gun free zone that kills and injures? Bullsh**!
Soon California will ban assault backpacks.
Ya know - if it had been registered it wouldn’t have discharged.
Spot on from what I read also. Quite a few shots fired. Again this is BS. Gangs and more gangs or defense and she killed and got caught. Still sucks no matter a 12 year old carrying a gun in school.
If that boy had helped her in any way he would have been screwed. she would have lied and said it was his gun.
As it is,she will get a pass because she has a vagina card. Just cry and claim ignorance and the saviors will swoop in to rescue and excuse her.
12 year old Female Hispanics. Just carrying the guns no one else will.
I suppose a “registered” gun wouldn’t have done that?
Maybe the girl was bringing it to a teacher or administrator. They were teaching her to not get caught next time.
All Papa could afford was a sat night special
Someone pulled the trigger. The gun didn’t do it on its own!
So:
1. The gun was loaded.
2. The round was chambered.
3. The safety was off.
4. The impact of the backpack hitting the floor was enough to jar the gun into firing all by itself (????)
or
4. The dropping of the bag caused ‘something’ in the bag to get inside of the trigger guard and pull the trigger with enough tension to make the round fire.
All of this and it wounded not one, but two people.
I totally see how this could have happened.
Wait...what?
Never mind
The school looks anything but American, rather exclusively South American with sh.thole countries’ manners and violence.
Such violence, er accident, er incident makes headlines only because the lying media has a cheap occasion to blame guns.
I wonder if the girl is registered?
Glocks are miserable guns for the uninitiated. Only when people learn, truly learn, the value and importance of a proper, high-quality holster that is made specifically for THAT gun should they buy one of these.
But if I had a dime for every Glock I see in an Uncle Mikes nylon universal holster I would buy an HK.
I like SA/DA firearms, pretty exclusively. I holster them with the safety on, my thumb on the hammer.. focused like a laser beam on the trigger and any interference.
But my striker fires I handle like they are radioactive during holstering, without visual confirmation and care for the trigger. I saw the aftermath of a man who holstered one in a nylon holster - worn out and folded over right where the trigger is. He just put it in and drilled an 8 inch long, smoking cavern in his leg. It was gross as hell. And this guy was a multi-decades carrier.
She was aiming for the seal.
I reckon an unregistered firearm (illegal gun) in the hands of an undocumented citizen* (illegal alien) could have unintended consequences.
Not saying that THIS perp is an undocumented citizen, necessarily (of course)
I call BS on all of this.
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