Posted on 04/06/2023 2:45:25 AM PDT by Libloather
Republican lawmakers in Tennessee advanced a bill through a House committee on Wednesday that would allow teachers to carry firearms in their classrooms – a move being criticized by Democrats, civil rights leaders and gun safety advocates as tone deaf in the wake of a shooting last week at a Nashville elementary school that killed three 9-year-olds and three school staff members.
“Our community is still grieving last week’s mass shooting at Covenant elementary that took 6 lives – their solution is more guns,” said Democratic Rep. Justin Jones, who represents parts of Nashville. “Shameful.”
Jones is one of three House Democrats set to be expelled on Thursday morning for protesting gun violence on the chamber floor after repeated attempts to debate the issue in the wake of the school shooting were shut down by Republican leadership.
In the days that followed the shooting, thousands of protesters poured into the Tennessee state Capitol building to push lawmakers to enact gun safety legislation in a state that boasts some of the loosest gun laws in the country: As it stands, state law allows the permitless carry of handguns, both concealed and unconcealed, for anyone over the age of 21, and there are no required background checks or trainings.
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‘gun safety groups’ = gun control grouups!
yes, arm the teachers! Once they qualify, and qualify every 6 mmonths, you might have a good deterrent..
and yes, if they do not qualify, at the 6 month mark,, it mightt bbe time to evaluate their tenure.
Agreed. Time to move.
Tennessee is moving along, as are a few other states.
Ping
yes, arm the teachers! Once they qualify, and qualify every 6 mmonths, you might have a good deterrent..
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It is a win-win all around. Having teachers who will put their life on the line for their students, will eliminate the woke, anti-gun, anti-humanity, phony teacher infiltrators now in our schools.
Adopting a permissive stance (”allow” teachers to carry) is good, but that’s not exactly “arming the teachers”, since 80% of them drive Priuses with bumper stickers that say “Wag More, Bark Less” or “COEXIST” or “Trans Rights are Human Rights”.
There is a LONG way to go before teachers become protectors.
Prior to the permitless carry law teachers at private schools who have their permit could carry in schools as long as students and parents were notified and signs are posted on the school. A couple years ago I taught a private permit class to 18 teachers who work at a private school. They all shot very well and I have no doubt any of them would engage a shooter to protect their students. I can’t remember which school it was and won’t divulge the city but having armed teachers who have proper training will help quite a bit. As an aside about half of those teachers came back later and took the nra defensive pistol class which is a two day event so they could learn and practice defensive use of handguns. So at least in Tennessee I wouldn’t lump all teachers as Prius driving liberals.
Biannual inservice days at the range for all teachers. Those teachers who don’t want to carry loose pay on that day and must post a sign in their classroom stating “You are not protected in this room”. Students can decide whether they want to attend that class.
Let liberalism have a cost.
Its odd how one day people here at FR blame all of the school's problems on the teachers and then advocate arming them the next day.
I guess you haven't met as many teachers as I have. There are very few I'd want to be in proximity with in the event they were armed.
They get trained or they get replaced. Allowing is just a first step. Requiring is step 2.
Use the Democrats technique of incrementalism against them.
There’s no reason our schools shouldn’t be staffed with protectors of our children’s lives as well as their minds.
States like Tennessee, I believe, have less leftist teachers than the blue states.
I also think that you arm a significant per s HOF teachers, not all. And pay those individuals a bonus to carry.
I also think that you arm a significant percentage of teachers……
Sorry….bad fingers.
I remember quite a few years back when placing police in schools was the demand.
Anti-gun groups were in favor of police in schools AS LONG AS THEY HAD “NO GUNS! NO GUNS!”
Hope they’re quite selective about which teachers to arm. Impeccable records. No arrests or restraining orders. Training. Secure storage. Maybe even an age requirement because most gun offenders are under age 30.
I’ve read that there were armed teachers at Covenant. Probably holding fire until their doors were breached.
Democrats are evil.
I dispute the notion the "civil rights leaders" have ever had any real interest in promoting anybody's rights.
"Gun safety advocates" do not advocate the safe and effective handling of firearms; they advocate the disarmament of We the People.
All of them are "tone deaf" "in the wake of" a deranged, sexually confused woman carrying out the premeditated murder of SIX innocent people who were rendered defenseless by "democRATs, civil rights leaders, and gun safety advocates".
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