Lawmakers in Tennessee passed a measure Tuesday that would allow school staff to carry concealed handguns on school grounds, sending the bill to the governor a year after a shooter opened fire and killed six people at a Nashville school. The Tennessee House cleared the legislation ...
Should Teachers Carry Guns in School?Abigail Shaha
LOS ANGELES, June 23 (Xinhua) -- Some teachers in the U.S. state of Colorado will be allowed to carry guns in school after a three-day training in aims of protecting students and school staff from potential gun violence. Seventeen teachers and administrators from five mostly rural counties ...
Last week, this tiny rural school district, located southeast of Colorado's second-largest city Colorado Springs, joined a growing number of U.S. school districts in allowing school staff to carry guns. According to School Board President Mark McPherson, the resolution, having won narrow approval...
Kathy Steinhoff is a high school math teacher in Columbia, Mo. She is very worried about the possibility of teachers carrying guns in school. Her district prohibits teachers from carrying guns. Many critics say, "The only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun." ...
(Reuters) - Florida's legislature on Wednesday passed a bill allowing teachers to carry guns in the classroom, expanding a program launched after the deadly high school shooting in Parkland with the aim of preventing another...
Villalba: Allow teachers to carry concealed gunsThe article informs that politician of Dallas, Texas Jason Villalba will file a legislation so that public school teachers can carry concealed weapons while they ...
Other campus staffers — such as campus administrators — who aren't necessarily in close contact with students every day can carry guns. A school board must approve the use of school marshals. The Argyle ISD board, in the Denton area, was among the first to do so. ...
Across the U.S., 15 states allow school personnel to carry guns on campus, according to nonprofit Everytown for Gun Safety. Over the last year, the number of school districts in Ohio that allow staff to be armed quadrupled, with 14% of the state's districts now participating, accordin...
The Cleveland Metropolitan School District intends to ban teachers and other non-security personnel from carrying guns in Cleveland schools after state lawmakers slashed the number of training hours required for K-12 staff to carry firearms on school gro