Child Shoots SWAT Officer at Reading Event with Officer’s Own Gun

Guns plus children. What could possibly go wrong?

A Lodi Police SWAT officer had a Glock 35 with a flashlight in his thigh holster at a children’s reading event when a boy managed to pull the trigger and shoot the officer.

“It doesn’t have an external safety or anything like that,” said Lt. Sierra Brucia with the department. “The gun functioned how it was supposed to. When the trigger was pulled, the gun went off.”

But this could never happen to an armed teacher at a school, because unlike that SWAT officer, the teacher would surely be properly trained. Or something.