Posted on 09/11/2014 5:35:32 PM PDT by dayglored
SALT LAKE CITY — A Utah elementary school teacher who was carrying a concealed firearm at school was struck by fragments from a bullet and a porcelain toilet when her gun accidently fired in a faculty bathroom on Thursday, officials said.
The sixth-grade teacher at Westbrook Elementary School, in the Salt Lake City suburb of Taylorsville, was injured when the bullet struck a toilet and caused it to explode, Granite School District spokesman Ben Horsley said.
Authorities initially thought the teacher had accidently shot herself. They now believe she was injured when the bullet and toilet fragments struck her lower leg.
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Unfortunately, a black eye for the argument in favor of concealed carry by teachers in schools. I almost wonder how this could come to happen -- i.e. could she have really been that clumsy, or did somebody put her up to it?
I hate to think that way, and I hope she recovers quickly from her injury. But this is pretty weird...
What is wrong with these two sentences?
I bet that caused her have a bowel movement.
Sounds like Secretary of State material, right Hanoi Boi?
I personally think pistols carried in schools by teachers should have the old type safety on them plus no round in chamber. A Glock is not what I would recommend for teachers. I hope she is well and corrects what happened.
Maybe. What's not in doubt is that she had a bowl movement!
Was the projectile found? Maybe it was just lactose intolerance.
Yeah, it doesn’t take long to chamber a round if needed.
Was she in slacks, with the gun in a pocket, and fumbled pulling the slacks up?
Did the gun fall out of a pocket and hit the floor and go off "accidentally"?
Did she get pi$$ed off (sorry) at the toilet and shoot it in cold blood???
WTF???
You should always use a holster, unless you like the idea of an unintentional discharge.
Concealed carry and panty hose.... a real problem. She should do like Rosie O’Donnell and stand up while urinating.
It says the toilet "exploded". Injury and danger aside, that's just freakin' AWESOME. When I was a teenager...
Gawd, what a mess that must have made, since probably she had just used it and perhaps the flush wasn't complete...
Eewwww.
I am in the trades and hate hate toilets that get broken that porceiln is sharp and flys of at tremendous speeds even when accidental broken the old ones im careful with the new ones
She was probably carrying a Glock.
A buddy of mine who's not on FR just sent me this in email regarding this unfortunate occurrence:
...bad things tend to happen in those odd little "wait-a-minute" moments.Geez.My favorite story was a guy who hung his glock on the coat hook via the trigger guard. The trigger got depressed of course, the gun fired, and the recoil forces spun it like a cartwheel, shooting until it was empty (14 shots). He was unhurt but I imagine he was quite impressed.
She shot the John!
Yeah, I think we can all agree: guns do not “assidentally” fire themselves.
Booger hook on the bang switch, only reason any of mine ever went off.
The “Number Two” holster
Perhaps she had seen the cartoon movie “Fritz The Cat”.
Anyone seen the “I killed the John” scene and repeated it.
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