More news has surfaced about the shooting incident in Virginia in which a 6-year-old student shot his teacher, Abby Zwerner. She remains in serious but stable condition, according to authorities. Zwerner was trying to confiscate the gun when the child shot her.
Via The Washington Post:
The first-grade class at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News was in a small reading group about to go to art when one of their classmates pulled a handgun from his backpack and pointed it at his teacher, according to Brittaney Gregory, whose son was in the class.
"She was going to confiscate it, and that's when he shot," she said. Run, the teacher said. The children raced to another teacher's classroom area, where they stayed in lockdown.
After the shooting, the 6-year-old was in police custody, authorities said. City officials declined to say where the child is now, and whether he will be charged with a crime. It is unclear how he got the handgun.
Newport News city council member John Eley said that he visited the teacher and her family in the hospital, and he has questions.
"That teacher could have lost her life. That student, that child, he could have lost his life as well," Eley said. "How did this child even know how to use a gun at 6 years old?"
Republicans want teachers to be armed, but they have demonized educators for years. I can see how that would backfire (no pun intended). Yes, firearms are the problem in our gun-saturated country. The shooter, in this case, is only 6 years old.
