And according to the report, he signed the form about metal objects near the MRI machines. So he can’t say they did not warn him.
(Thing is, he had to be in a position so oriented that the magnetic field pulled on the right parts of the mechanism in the right directions.)
In ICU with multiple surgeries. Poor mom, all else aside.
"My parents bought a special box where they keep my birthday presents!
Happy Bithday to me…!
< Bamm! >
Happy Bithday to me…!
< Bamm! >
( /s )
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She’s a strong woman; she’s used to raising a dumbell…
If only there’d been a good MRI machine with a gun this never would have happened.
Another mass shooting, ten dead (so far) in Monterey Park.
Monterey Park mass shooting updates: 10 dead, body found in van linked to suspect - ABC News (go.com)
Ironic!
Man’s best friend.
Really?
[ Morgan Freeman ] “In the discussion about safety, he was wrong.” [ /Morgan Freeman ]
I don’t think I’ve ever heard of a parent having to be with their kid at school every day. Whatever disability he has, it seems it would have been treated better in a more specialized environment.
Why would he even need to be in the actual room with her? I mean, WTF, they have actual professionals on hand to take care of these patients. He’s of no use to his mom in the room. I’d send one of those sarcastic “thoughts and prayers” to him, but I don’t even care that little for his outcome. What a douchebag.
Officers in Fort Worth found a woman dead with an “apparent” gunshot wound to the upper body. The incident occurred while the two were “discussing gun safety”.
This just proves again that most of the people that think they are gun gurus know less than shit about guns and get most of their knowledge from tv/movies. I’ve trained a couple hundred people on gun safety and use and no one has ever shot themselves or anyone else. Never even a negligent discharge. It’s not rocket science, but you can’t teach it in a couple of hours in your living room.
Probably self defense by the dog. He figured a guy with a loaded gun with the safety off just laying unsecured in a car didn’t bode well for him if he had to run out in front of this guy across a field.
Oh, I was assuming the discussion was really more of an argument, and the guy on the pro-gun side shot her to “win” the argument.
I found that alarming. Definitely a flag that the school is not qualified to deal with this child’s disability/disorder.
Yes, I see the “discussion” going like this:
She: Don’t bring that gun in the house you moron!
He: Shut up! It’s perfectly safe!
S: It’s not safe! You’re a moron and don’t know what you’re doing!
H: Don’t talk to me like that! I know what I’m doing! Look!
S: Don’t point that fucking thing at me!
H: I told you it’s perfectly BANG!
H: Oh. Sorry.
Hear something, do nothing. Good job, adults.
Diane Toscano, an attorney for Abigail Zwerner, said during a news conference that she has notified the school board in Newport News that the 25-year-old teacher at Richneck Elementary School plans to sue the school district over the shooting, which left Zwerner with serious injuries.
“On that day, over the course of a few hours, three different times — three times — school administration was warned by concerned teachers and employees that the boy had a gun on him at the school and was threatening people. But the administration could not be bothered,” Toscano said.
Question here is why didn’t the staff call the police?
ETA:
This quote in the article from an administrator is just eye-popping stupid(bolding mine):
About an hour later, another teacher went to an administrator and said she had taken it upon herself to search the boy’s bookbag, but warned that she thought the boy had put the gun in his pocket before going outside for recess, Toscano said.
“The administrator downplayed the report from the teacher and the possibility of a gun, saying — and I quote — ‘Well, he has little pockets,’ ” Toscano said.
I read a couple of articles on this and my conclusion is that the administrators were in denial, with the state of mind of, “If a 6-year-old has a gun we’re going to really have to do something about it” and nobody wanted the responsibility.
Definitely big denial going on. Probably a large dose of “that would never happen at our school!” Sounds like a few of them are resigning/being fired over this. Hopefully anyone that was in on the decision to pass on searching the boy will be unemployed soon.
I just can’t get past three warnings of a child with a gun, and zero response. I don’t think the school has any way to argue this wasn’t gross negligence.
If he does have a gun, that scares me, and if he doesn’t have a gun, his parents will sue us for harassment.
I don’t have much experience with six year olds besides my nieces and nephews being that age a long time ago. I can see a kid that age bringing a gun to school to show off to friends and not understanding the consequences. But to conceal it from adults, show it to other kids while threatening to kill them if they told and literally telling a teacher he is going to kill her seems to me beyond the mental capacity of a six year old. Are children that age normally capable of that much duplicity and cunning? Obviously this one was but is he that far off the norm?
Why didn’t one of those adults take the gun off the kid?
I’m going to hazard a guess that without seeing the gun, they’re not allowed to touch the kid or go through his stuff.