A teacher who also serves as a reserve police officer accidentally fired a gun inside a Seaside High School classroom Tuesday, police said, and three students were injured.
Dennis Alexander was teaching a course about gun safety for his Administration of Justice class when his gun went off at 11 a.m.
Alexander was pointing his gun at the ceiling when it fired. Pieces of the ceiling fell to the ground.
A news release from the Seaside Police Department said no one suffered "serious injuries." One 17-year-old boy suffered moderate injuries when fragments from the bullet ricocheted off the ceiling and lodged into his neck, the student's father, Fermin Gonzales, told KSBW.
The teacher had just told the class that he wanted to make sure his gun wasn't loaded, when the gun fired, according to Gonzales.
"It's the craziest thing. It could have been very bad," Gonzales said.
The teacher was about to use the gun for a demonstration about how to disarm someone, according to Gonzales.
So to be clear a teacher, who is also a police officer, with extensive training in firearms, accidentally fires his weapon in a classroom full of children, injuring one.
And yet the solution to gun violence in schools is supposed to be MORE armed teachers?
Got it.
There are a number of things about this story that deeply trouble me, but right at the top is the fact that this individual was teaching children that they should attempt to "disarm" a gun man.
I studied martial arts for decades, and the idea of going after a gun wielding assailant was NEVER encouraged.
As one instructor put it, "You are not going to be a help to anybody while bleeding out on the floor."
This teacher was teaching dangerous ideas while also introducing an instrument of death into his classroom.
He should be fired immediately. From BOTH of his jobs.
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Too bad karma didn't help here. If this were in my kids' school, I would be enraged.
ReplyDeleteHere's hoping he earns his Darwin Award soon!
ReplyDeleteLet's just hope when that day comes, no one else gets hurt.
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Let me guess. His state is against Common Core teaching of basic math, shared history, and English skills, but all for some moron with a gun wasting their time on
ReplyDeleteAdministration of Justice?" Justice would have been administered had this idiot been hit by bullet fragments instead of the kids.
Nope. Sorry.
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I really don't understand how this guy got away with bringing a gun on campus. They're not allowed on K-12 public school campuses unless you are a uniformed police officer, either responding to a call or there on official business in some way.
Would not be surprised if he wasn't teaching any longer. If he's part time, very easy to get rid of him. Also very easy to get rid of the class, which is not part of Common Core and/or change the syllabus so that "gun safety" is NOT part of the curriculum.
http://seasidehigh.mpusd.k12.ca.us
It's part of the Monterrey Peninsula Unified School District.
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Um,no. My hometown of Seaside is a progressively blue and very racially diverse town,something we’re damn proud of. The education that my siblings and I received in the public schools was an excellent one,and gave us a great base for our college years.This idiot works as a reserve cop in the very tiny neighboring town of Sand City (population about 300). Just because we are the blue home county of the Panetta family,it doesn’t mean we don’t have our own small percentage of village idiots.
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ReplyDeleteA sister of Dylann Roof, the man who massacred nine black churchgoers in South Carolina in 2015, was arrested on Wednesday for bringing a knife, pepper spray and marijuana to her high school, the authorities said.
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My father was an Army Ranger and also earned a black belt in tae kwon do while we lived in Korea. Disarming a person with a gun may be a last resort, but it can be done. My Dad trained guys how to do it when he taught close quarters combat at Ranger School at Ft. Benning. My Dad was a badass.
ReplyDeleteIsraeli military also know how to do it, using krav maga. Marine Recon are also taught various techniques to disarm an armed attacker.
Gryphen, if you took martial arts for decades and this was never addressed, maybe you should ask for your money back.
Well military training is going to be a little different than the training you get as a civilian, as there is an increased possibility that you will be confronted with by an armed assailant.
DeleteAnd I do know some rather impressive techniques I picked up along the way, and actually taught some of them when I trained police officers.
However just about every qualified martial arts teacher will tell you that you have little chance of actually getting close enough to get the gun, and teach you instead to comply with the gunman unless it becomes obvious that they are going to shoot you no matter what you do.
In the job I have now we have been instructed in deescalation techniques and I would suggest that in MOST situations that is a far better approach than to rely on martial arts skills.