Police: Florida boy (5) drops loaded handgun inside pre-kindergarten class

A female pre-kindergarten teacher at Moseley Elementary School in Palatka was giving a music lesson Tuesday morning when she noticed the small, .22-caliber handgun fall out of the boy's pocket, Assistant Police Chief James Griffith said. The firearm did not go off, and no one was hurt.

But the boy, along with the gun, were promptly brought to school administrators. They alerted school security and police at 9:25 a.m., having determined that there was no immediate danger to the school, which is in Palatka in northeastern Florida.

"The boy is both initially a suspect in this thing, but also a victim," said Griffith. "This is very rare."

The boy told authorities that he found the firearm inside the vehicle that he had come to school in -- one which Griffith said belonged to the youngster's stepfather. Neither the boy nor stepfather have been named, the assistant chief said, in order to protect the identity of the child, who is a minor.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/01/27/florida.child.gun/index.html?hpt=Sbin

Sigh.

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that 5 year old would have probably saved the day with his concealed carry.

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Doubleplusgood!

In kindergarten......I'm sure the NRA will help arrange special sales, right at the school Bookstore.





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it would be safer because no one would try messing with them.

He should be in there for *quite* a while.

I have no problem accepting that individual gun owners can be stupid, as this one certainly was. Why would anyone? It would be strange magical thinking to imagine that tens of millions of people become immune from stupidity just because they possess one specific tool. Of course it's also magical thinking to imagine that stupid individuals with a specific tool implies we can say anything at all about others with the same tool or whether they should have one, but that's a problem for antis to concern themselves with.

can't recall that...

Or are you more deader if a gun is used?

I'm so confused

http://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local-beat/Sledgehammer-Killer-Wants-Off-Death-Row-105529548.html

How about a nail gun? Are you more dead, or less dead, than someone that's been gunned down?

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6158997.ece

Still can't find anyone shot with a hammer. I remember someone being shot with a nail gun however.