8-Year-Old Boy Arrested After Pulling Gun on Teacher

I can’t say that I was overly fond of many of my teachers when I was a kid. It wasn’t anything personal; it was just that they were teachers, and they made me do things I didn’t want to do, like math. The nerve of it all. 

Still, as annoying as they could be, and as much glee as I might have felt at imagining some kind of mishap to occur to them after they made a thing of me not having my homework yet again, I never would have actually thought about harming them myself. It’s one thing if God decides to smite them. It’s another to take matters into your own hands.

Unfortunately, our society has moved on from those days over the last 40-some-odd years. Today, kids are different, which is fine in concept.

When they are doing stuff like this, though, it’s anything but fine.

An 8-year-old Mohave County boy allegedly brought a loaded gun to school and threatened a teacher on Monday.

The boy reportedly showed the gun off to other students, threatened one of the teachers and handed it off to another boy, according to ABC15.

Another student noticed the gun and immediately reported it to the school’s principal.

The gun was secured by school authorities, who also removed the boy from the classroom, before the Mohave County Sheriff’s Office responded and arrived just before noon.

The boy was taken to the Mohave County Juvenile Detention Center and is facing multiple felony charges, including misconduct involving weapons, disorderly conduct, minor in possession of a firearm, interfering with an educational institution and threatening/intimidating, according to ABC15.

Arizona doesn’t have a mandatory storage law, but it does have a negligent storage law. In theory, that should be sufficient to keep a gun out of the hands of a child like this.

Clearly, it ain’t.

Let’s consider this in light of the elementary teacher being shot in Virginia back in 2023. That was a six-year-old child. In other words, roughly born the same year as this kid.

What has gone wrong in our society that young children are threatening to shoot teachers and bringing guns to school? I know they’re not walking into the gun store to buy them. Arizona’s laws against negligent storage sure didn’t stop anything, either, so there’s no reason to believe mandatory storage laws would do the trick. Yet they’re still getting access to them, which is an issue.

Then there’s the fact that it seems far too many believe violence against a teacher is a valid approach to whatever issues there are with them.

Even without a gun, this is an issue. I’m pretty sure no teacher would feel better about being threatened by a student with a knife, after all. I sure as hell wouldn’t, at least. I can’t imagine anyone else would.

Which brings us to the simple fact that the real problem is that we have generations of children who see violent retribution as the preferred solution to perceived slights, and that likely contributes to this crap. One thing is certain, though; it’s not something that can be solved by gun control. 

It’s one thing for a kid to defend himself from a bully. It’s another thing to think that every insult is a matter of life and death, and should result in someone being killed. That’s a people problem, not a gun issue, and we need to start thinking about it that way. 

Editor’s Note: The mainstream media downplays the subcultures that contribute to our violent cities, then continues to lie about gun owners and the Second Amendment. 

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