Cops: Elementary kids find loaded gun teacher left in Pa. school bathroom

[Arkansas Granny]

- A teacher at a Pennsylvania Christian school accidently left her loaded pistol in a bathroom, where elementary school children found it, Pennsylvania State Police said Tuesday.

Beth Jean Dixon, 63, put her holstered pistol on a toilet tank when she used the unisex, one-toilet bathroom Aug. 25 at Cumberland Christian School, in Chambersburg, police said. They said she forgot about it and left.


Four children, ages 6 to 8, used the bathroom while the gun was on the toilet. One child told his parent, who told a teacher.

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And here we go.

[Hoyt]

1. That's good for the arm the teacher movement.

[Ohiogal]

2. Careless idiot!

What if one of the children had picked it up, or handled it, there could have been a horrible accident!

She should be fired immediately!

[johnp3907]

4. Well, it happened in 2016.

So a firing couldn’t be TOO immediate.

[badhair77]

5. She resigned immediately.

But my question - she needed a gun in a Christian school with 6-8 yr olds? In Chambersburg, PA?

[Cuthbert Allgood]

7. So no shooter is going to shoot up a Christian school?

I mean, it was stupid and I don't agree with it, but if we are seriously going down the "arm teachers" movement (which is stupid as shit), then you don't get to guess where the next shooting is.

[badhair77]

11. Anything can happen, as we saw in the TX church shooting.

I’m just putting myself in the mindset of a 63 yr old teacher there. Was she carrying that gun because she fears a school shooting? Did she think a student would attack her? Was she afraid when she was commuting to and from school? All questions we can’t answer because we’re not privy to her thinking.

[3catwoman3]

12. Careless indeed. Had such a horrible outcome...

...resulted, it should not have been called an accidents. Events such as these are negligence, pure and simple, and should be identified as such. Completely preventable.

[Freedomofspeech]

6. Jesus would be so proud.

[JDC]

9. Republican Jesus was notoriously careless with his side arm

True story....

[Freedomofspeech]

10. Oh, yeah..

I think that was in the Book of Collusions.

[NastyRiffraff]

8. This is exactly why arming teachers is a great idea!

In case you need it:

Trump is a moron, just in case nobody here knows it.

[Dorian Gray]

13. Good Lord.