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submitted 1 year ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

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.”

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[-] WashedOver@lemmy.ca 130 points 1 year ago

If only all the other kids were armed too we could have avoided the need for thoughts and prayers - NRA

[-] BruceTwarzen@kbin.social 26 points 1 year ago

I'd say it's her own fault. Who doesn't wear a bullet proof west to an american school.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] lennybird@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Yep. Take your pick:

  1. It's either out of effective reach to be useful in an emergency situation.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

[-] JakenVeina@lemm.ee 24 points 1 year ago

Anyone else feel like the article title was rather clickbait-y?

former teacher Abby Zwerner said she still worries about the other children who saw it happen, and wonders how they’re faring.

[-] moistclump@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

At first I thought she maybe lives in fear of her students and that they might shoot her again.

[-] aaaantoine@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

It did at least draw me to the comments section to see the chatter, but no, I pretty much expected what you quoted.

I guess it's open enough to interpretation to be misleading. Do readers think she was worried the kid was going after them next? Do they think she was worried one more of the students would come after her?

[-] JakenVeina@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

That was my initial thought, yeah.

[-] Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

Thank god for.guns... rolling eyes emoji

[-] otp@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 year ago

Is this the youngest perpetrator of a school shooting?

[-] Jimmyeatsausage@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

The youngest...so far!

[-] sukhmel@programming.dev 9 points 1 year ago

[Researcher David Riedman, founder of a database that tracks U.S. school shootings dating back to 1970] said Saturday that he’s only aware of three other shootings caused by 6-year-old students in the time period he’s studied. Those include the fatal shooting of a fellow student in 2000 in Michigan and shootings that injured other students in 2011 in Texas and 2021 in Mississippi

Maybe not, at least if we don't know the exact age at least to the month

[-] otp@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago
[-] Geobloke@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Maybe, but younger people have been shot, so it balances out!

[-] Agent_Engelbert@linux.community 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Back in the day, when the government of Japan banned samurai schools, and prohibited so many dangerous weapons, the samurai got angry and revolted.

Those samurais, on the other hand, who worked closely with the government or had willingness (or had leverage by working with them), created their own "spiritual" schools, teaching aikido, kendo, and practices of spirituality, peace, and finding one's own path in life.

But now Japan thrives ever so lively. And yet, the government now carries all that stigma after the ages of samurais had passed; and for good reasons, because they do oppress people and judge them unjustly in courts.

Perhaps the sword may have not been the answer, but it is certainly not the solution either to dismantle all, including the good and the bad, for there are the protectors of peace- the sword carriers, and those whom carry weapons and guns are no different.

And there are those who are irresponsible and neglectful, and would drive opposition the opportunity for justifying radical changes. Then that radical change would be justified. Including the dismantling of weapons and their schools of thought.

So is the case that had led to this women's unfortunate circumstance.

However, I will still carry the sword to death with me.

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