The superintendent of Newport News Public Schools, Dr. George Parker, said at the news conference that “we need to keep guns out of the hands of our young people.”

6-Year-Old Shoots Teacher at Virginia Elementary School, Police Say.

A teacher at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News has “life-threatening injuries” after being shot by one of her students, the authorities said.

By Livia Albeck-Ripka and Eduardo Medina
Jan. 6, 2023

A 6-year-old first-grader at an elementary school in Newport News, Va., shot a teacher on Friday afternoon during an altercation in a classroom, the authorities said, leaving her with “life-threatening” injuries and renewing calls for greater gun restrictions.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/06/us/newport-news-school-shooting-virginia.html

High-profile instances of gun violence across the US last year included the killings of 10 at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York, and 21 at a school in Uvalde, Texas.

MIND BOGGLING!

How does a kid of that age go out of the house with a gun in his backpack without parents supervising?

It is high time parents start paying attention to how they raise their youngsters. Mainly adolescents are blameless, they learn from the parents. … pleasant and polite parents gets a polite brood.  Detestable, adversarial, fighting parents, children will become the same. A child only knows what they see. These days parents let them watch and play violent games at a very young age; not judging, but something transforms in how youngsters are raised.

Remember during the late 80s when they banned TOY-Guns for kids?

Now they get the real thing that kills. 

 Absolutely  Shocking!!! 

Totally careless parents  as these don't check on their kids, sometimes the kids go off without lunch.... I hope the parents will be taken to court and heavily  fined.

NOT THE FIRST TIME....

A kids once killed his sister playing with a gun! 

After a toddler accidentally shot and killed his older sister, a family’s wounds run deep

IRONDALE, Ala. — They have put it off all spring and summer, but now it’s autumn and they’re out of excuses, so they set out on what should be the most ordinary of chores: to dismantle a trampoline in one back yard and rebuild it in another.

December 1, 2016

washingtonpost.com/national/after-a-toddler-accidentally-shot-and-killed-his-older-sister

'A red flag for the country'

Newport News Mayor Phillip Jones called the shooting "a red flag for the country," according to The Associated Press.

Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., tweeted that he was "deeply disturbed" by the shooting and "closely monitoring the situation."

It’s not clear at this time whether the 6-year-old boy is still in custody or whether he has an attorney.