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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i call bs. she was playing around with the gun.
ROFL!!!
Just ask Plaxico Burris about Glocks. IMHO the generally best CC weapon is a short barreled DA revolver with a shrouded hammer. A Glock is just too touchy and accident prone.
Maybe she was cleaning it. You know how many times a gun "just went off accidentally while [person] was cleaning it"...
Yeah, you got a possibility there.
Of course she was playing with the gun. I bet she has only owned it a few days and took it out of her purse to stroke and tease it when it went “bang.” No more, no less.
Stranger things have happened...
While I think trained school staff should at least have access to a gun at school, it should at least have no bullet in the chamber, and possibly be locked in a gun safe. The main purpose should be to get defensive weapons in the hands of several staff members as soon as an alarm is sounded. Let the staff that’s not pinned down grab their weapons and take the aggressor down.
I know people will disagree with me on that, but if that shot had killed a student, carrying in a school would be done and gone, and I want to see as many schools as possible with “Our Staff is Armed” instead of those inane “Gun Free Zone” signs.
If enough schools arm their staffs, the Gun Free Zone signs should come down even if the staff isn’t armed at a particular school. Why advertise the fact?
Anyway, let schools individually start working out the policies that do the best job of arming the staff while preventing accidents like this one. Hopefully, that teacher is no longer on the list permitted to carry in school.
While I think trained school staff should at least have access to a gun at school, it should at least have no bullet in the chamber, and possibly be locked in a gun safe. The main purpose should be to get defensive weapons in the hands of several staff members as soon as an alarm is sounded. Let the staff that’s not pinned down grab their weapons and take the aggressor down.
I know people will disagree with me on that, but if that shot had killed a student, carrying in a school would be done and gone, and I want to see as many schools as possible with “Our Staff is Armed” instead of those inane “Gun Free Zone” signs.
If enough schools arm their staffs, the Gun Free Zone signs should come down even if the staff isn’t armed at a particular school. Why advertise the fact?
Anyway, let schools individually start working out the policies that do the best job of arming the staff while preventing accidents like this one. Hopefully, that teacher is no longer on the list permitted to carry in school.
“Probably didn’t have it in some sort of holster.”
I had my pistol slip out of my IWB holster once while using a toilet. It didn’t fire, of course, since it has a trigger safety, striker block safety, and a manual safety. I did go out and get a more secure holster after that, although I do miss the old one.
I’d have to agree that she was either screwing around with it, or being too casual in re-bolstering it after it slipped out.
All of my firearms are defective I guess...
Never had a single off of them just go off for no apparent reason. They’ve all required actuation of the trigger to fire.
Ok... There’s that old Mauser rifle. Flip the safety off too fast while cocked and it’ll slip the sear. That’ll surprise you...
Trained by John “I served in Vietnam” Kerry?
Yeah that thought occurred to me as well. That's kind of what I meant when I wondered if somebody put her up to it.
One of the guys in the news lately who were Benghazi survivors had an accidental fire in the aircraft waiting to take off. He said the pilot wouldn’t take off till he checked out the fuselage.
I don't mind carrying a Glock, but I don't like being around folks who do. There are just too many accidental discharges (ADs) that keep happening with Glocks.
And yes, as you have to pull the trigger before you can disassemble a Glock, I've witnessed two ADs with Glocks that occurred during weapons cleaning.
Yep. She was fidgeting with her gun. No accident, just pure stupidity.
I know very experienced former and retired military who will admit they blew a hole in the wall or somewhere with a Glock. I did. I bought a model 30 45 and the Colt model 70 I had in stainless that was throated out with night sights and 4lb of trigger pull was a much better pistol.
Once again, this evening, an entire house full of firearms failed to accidently discharge.
Make the strap day-glo orange or dollars to donuts somebody will leave it hanging in the stall. Trust me, I’ve seen it done.
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