Police Notice Increase in Guns in Canadian Schools
Submitted By: BizarreNews
Article Date: 12/22/2001
URL: http://www.goofball.com/news/20011222_bizarre
QUEBEC - A police officer who went to an elementary school to talk to children may need a lesson on firearm safety. The Quebec City police officer visited the school´s washroom and put his loaded revolver on the back of the toilet. He then forgot it and left. A seven-year-old boy found the weapon, and had the good sense to notify a teacher. The school has criticized the police for bringing weapons into the class-rooms, but a police spokesman said, A gun is an obligatory tool of the trade, and went on to comment that he himself was once criticized for entering a church funeral service with his gun in a holster. He said there´s a good side to the mislaid-gun story: the seven-year-old didn´t pick it up.