Posted on 02/07/2018 11:32:51 AM PST by marktwain
In a recent rampage school shooting in Benton, Kentucky, a 15-year-old boy killed two classmates and wounded 14 others. One student said that the worst part was hiding and waiting 45 minutes before the police appeared.
This illustrates the problem of relying on centralized police to handle rampage shootings. A Sheriff's Department School Resource Officer was at the school at the time.
It is unclear what effect the School Resource Officer had on the shooting, if any. The shooter was taken into custody without a struggle.
Senator Steve West, (R) SD-027, of Kentucky, has introduced the same bill he introduced in 2017, to allow strictly limited individuals to act as “school marshals” to protect children in K-12 schools in Kentucky.
The bill aims to slightly loosen restrictions on the possession of guns in schools so that a tiny number of people could react to violent rampages in schools.
Under Senate Bill 103, public school boards and private schools would be able to appoint teachers or staff to be “school marshals.”
Marshals would be required to have a concealed carry permit to carry a firearm on school property. The gun could only be used “for the protection of a third person from imminent death or serious physical injury,” and would be required to be kept in a lockbox at all other times.
SB 103 is a long, rather complicated bill that places significant restraints on school boards and school administrations.
School marshals are limited to one for every 400 students.
The bill only allows employees of the school to be school marshals.
The school marshals are required to have concealed carry
(Excerpt) Read more at ammoland.com ...
The simple solution would be to allow school district employees to carry concealed while at work, on school grounds, and at school events.
Right next to the Social Security mon.... oh, wait...
Is School Marshall Bill related to Fire Marshall Bill?
There are no laws and there are no signs that prevents anyone from carrying a firearm into any place to kill people. The only people affected are those being shot because they obeyed the no firearm laws and signs.
Marshal, in this case, is spelled with one L. It is spelled with two L's if it is a name, as in Marshall Tucker, The Marshall Plan, or Marshall McLuhan.
Thanks, a Fire Marshal
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