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Texas school employee shot in gun safety class - Salon.com
Hopefully, he will make a complete recovery but this certainly points up the problems with giving people a few hours or less instruction and then putting the safety of school kids in that person's hands, as it were.
A Texas public school employee was accidentally shot and wounded during a district-sponsored handgun safety class. According to local news sources KLTV and The Tyler Morning Telegraph, maintenance worker Glenn Geddie was accidentally shot after a training session aimed towards arming employees.
A statement from the district superintendent read:
At the conclusion of the CHL training on February 27, 2013, one certified person stayed for private instruction with the instructor and had a mechanical malfunction with his weapon. With the assistance of the instructor, the malfunction was addressed, but the gun misfired and the bullet ricocheted coming back to strike the VISD employee in the left leg. The VISD employee was attended to at the scene and transferred to Tyler for further treatment. The injury is not life threatening or disabling. Because of privacy and security issues we cannot make any further statement.
Hopefully, he will make a complete recovery but this certainly points up the problems with giving people a few hours or less instruction and then putting the safety of school kids in that person's hands, as it were.