A school board in rural Colorado has voted to allow faculty and staff members who are licensed for concealed carry in the state to do so on campus to protect students in a region where law enforcement officers can be 45 minutes away in an emergency.
The 3-2 vote Wednesday by the board in the Hanover School District 28 was reported by the Colorado Springs Gazette.
The state has a history of school shootings, including the 1999 Columbine shooting, in which two students, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, shot and killed 12 other students and one teacher. They also wounded 21 others before they killed themselves.
In 2013, a student at Arapahoe High School shot and killed another student before killing himself.
There also have been shootings at churches and church facilities, and at least one mass shooting at a restaurant in the state.
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About time people used their brains.
ReplyDeleteCongrats....good for them
ReplyDeletebe very careful of cause/effect "reactionary" approvals.
ReplyDeleteAll for guns, wish MD was a bit more relaxed like our brothers/sisters in VA... just saying if you pass something that reacts to a potential what if - what doors does that open?
Ex. Approval of conceal/carry for teachers. Student finds teacher's "concealed" weapon, blows head off. Now a % of population is up in arms saying if there was no conceal/carry for teachers, student would be alive and parents wouldn't be planning a funeral. Cause/effect in everything we do, always.
Hold on a second. Every other post about teachers on here describes them a stupid liberals that can't think for themselves that brainwash the children.
ReplyDeleteThere are clear positives and negatives to this. Kids take teachers gun? Teacher accidentally shoots a kid? A situation arises where a teacher will have to make the decision to use deadly force? The right to own a gun doesn't give the right to take a life. I think that's the fine line we must all walk as gun owners
ReplyDelete10:28, if a student "finds" my concealed carry inside my waistband under my overhanging shirt, they means I have become an irresponsible gun owner, and the student a felon.
ReplyDeleteI don't see that happening period. You need to go to your "safe space" and suck on your binkey.