A year after she was shot by her 6-year-old student in a Virginia classroom, former teacher Abby Zwerner said she still worries about the other children who saw it happen, and wonders how they’re faring.
Wounded by a bullet that struck her hand and chest and punctured a lung, Zwerner rushed the other first-graders into the hallway before she collapsed in the elementary school’s office.
“I hope that they are enjoying school, enjoying their second-grade year,” Zwerner, 26, told The Virginian-Pilot newspaper. “I hope that they’re still kind to their classmates, kind to teachers. I hope that they still have happiness, and that their happiness wasn’t completely stripped away.”
They want to arm teachers already. When I keep asking how do you guarantee that a kid isn’t ever going to get access to a teacher’s gun, they act like that’s a stupid question.
Yep. Take your pick:
It’s either out of effective reach to be useful in an emergency situation.
Or it’s recklessly in the open for others to steal or accidentally play with and cause a safety accident that goes underreported in this country.
Teachers are stretched even more thin and underpaid by an even greater amount as they must now take recurring training and expect to be a hero wheb trained LEO with more tools in their kit can’t even do.