Gun finds it way into Texas preschooler’s backpack
It’s not as quite as disturbing as a school shooting, but it’s pretty damn close.
This past Tuesday at a San Antonio preschool, a teacher found a handgun in the backpack of a three-year-old student. Normally, when something like this happens, it’s the child who took an unsecured firearm from a family member. Also, how sad is it we can use the term ‘normally’ when talking about guns in schools?
Anyway, in this instance, officials have said the child did not know the gun was in his backpack. Which, of course, means someone had to put the gun there. We don’t know for sure who put the gun in the kid’s backpack, but the boy’s father, 35-year-old Pete Robles, was arrested and charged with felony child endangerment. I guess there is a line you can cross in Texas with a gun that will actually get you arrested.
Currently, the investigation is still ongoing, and more charges could be made. Also, there’s been no word on whether the gun was owned legally, but does that really matter in Texas?
It’s unclear how the gun got into the child’s backpack, but I have a theory. It’s not unheard of for people who are caught with some kind of contraband to try to hide it on their kids. This typically happens during traffic stops or when police show up to someone’s home. Is that the case here? It’s too early to say, but I can’t think of any other reason a gun would end up in a child’s backpack, since police are certain the child didn’t put it there themselves.
Let’s suppose the gun was legally owned. More than likely, the gun was unsecured, you know, beside the fact it was in a kid’s backpack. According to one study, close to 60% of legal gun owners in the US leave at least one firearm unsecure at all times. And if I had to hazard a guess, I’d say a lot of the other 40% are lying.
We all know the type of person who keeps an unsecure gun in the home at all times. They either live in fear that Antifa is ready to invade their home at any moment, they’re hoping someone does break into their home, so they can shoot someone, or they can’t feel like a real man unless they’re in arms reach of a firearm. Take that last one as you will.
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