Affidavit: 12-year-old points gun at teacher, pulls trigger

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press


Updated 4:25 pm CDT, Saturday, September 8, 2018

ELDRIDGE, Iowa (AP) — Court documents say a 12-year-old Iowa boy pointed a gun at his teacher's face and pulled the trigger, but the safety was on.

The Courier reports that court documents say the boy entered a North Scott Junior High classroom on Aug. 31 with a .22-caliber handgun and ordered everyone to the floor before he tried to shoot the teacher. Investigators say when the loaded gun failed to fire, the teacher wrestled it away from him.

The boy is charged with attempted murder, having a weapon on school grounds and assault while displaying a dangerous weapon. He remains in the Scott County Juvenile Detention Center.

The Associated Press doesn't generally name juveniles charged with crimes.

Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/education/article/Documents-Engaged-safety-kept-gun-from-firing-at-13214980.php

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[Canoe52]

1. If all his classmates and his teacher had a gun, this would never have happened.

[Hav]

3. If the Repubs had their wish

and teachers got armed, the kid would be most likely dead now. It's funny how this is the topic where they never admit what the cause of the problem is.

[Hav]

2. His parents should face charges as well

If you are 12 years old and do something like this, you are clearly troubled. But the parents should have picked up on that and not have their weapons lie around at the disposal of their young children.

[tblue37]

5. Strangely, I just now finished reading an article in "The Atlantic" about psychopathic children:

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/06/when-your-child-is-a-psychopath/524502/

[lindysalsagal]

15. I think I know 2 kids like this.

[raccoon]

6. Yes, they darned well should. Nt

[marble falls]

13. Absoulutely. Jail time, too.

[Midnight Writer]

4. Thankful the little fokker didn't take an NRA gun class.

[getagrip_already]

11. yeah, and it wasn't even an nra approved gun

since it actually had a working safety. Most guns nowadays don't. glock made that popular. all they have is a trigger safety - but it disngages when you pull the trigger, so it isn't really much of a safety feature. accidental firings are so common there is a term called a glock knee. meaning you shot yourself in the leg putting your gun back in its holster......

[Roy Rolling]

7. Balance

It takes a good lunatic with a gun to stop a bad lunatic with a gun.

And judging by GOP politics, they all are crazy enough for a concealed carry permit.

[MissMillie]

8. I don't like Mondays either (maybe not applicable per day of the week)

but I'm sick of the idea that everything can be solved with a gun.

[MissMillie]

9. I have more to say on this

Someone who has a gun doesn't know the safety is on....

Does the 2ns Amendment allow for giving "the right to bear arms" to people who don't know how to use those arms?

[lark]

10. In drumpfs fevered dreams, this would be a daily happening.

Teachers would have guns and kids would find a way to get them and use them and more people die because of russian repug policies.

[truthisfreedom]

12. Better ending than usual.

[noneof_theabove]

14. Since no on died...

Is it time now to talk about the issues of failed gun control.

Disclaimer: I accept the Amendments as "settled law" but something has to be done and soon.

[lindysalsagal]

16. If the gun had fired, who knows how many kids he'd have killed

But we still need our gunz. Because why?