Posted on 05/25/2013 2:07:49 PM PDT by EXCH54FE
The Texas house and senate have passed a bipartisan bill that is on its way to Governor Rick Perry to sign which will allow schools to train and maintain teachers as “armed marshals” on campuses.
A bipartisan 28-3 Senate vote gave final approval to the marshals bill, which was proposed after the December mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. It had already passed the House over the objection of the Texas State Teachers Association.
Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, a Republican, had pushed lawmakers to help school districts provide teachers or other employees with special weapons and tactical response training.
The bill allows school districts and charter schools to place one armed marshal on campus for every 400 students. After 80 hours of training, the marshals could bring a weapon on campus. Their identities would not be subject to public records law.
Marshals working directly with students would have to keep their guns in a lockbox “within immediate reach,” according to the measure. Marshals not working with students would be allowed to carry concealed weapons.
“We’ve created a new class of law enforcement officers here in Texas to protect our kids in a moment of crisis,” said State Rep. Jason Villalba (R)
The AP claims that this bill follows a “relaxing” of gun restrictions.
This measure doesn’t help anyone because the gun must remain in a lockbox, not in the possession of the teacher at all times. However, it will cost the taxpayers money in order to provide the lockboxes, train, provide ammunition and weapons for those teachers making the cut.
Texas teachers are already permitted to carry guns in class with the permission of their local school boards. However, a small number of districts have actually granted that permission.
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Please let it be true!
So, if a teacher leaves the classroom, they would NOT have their gun "within immediate reach.”
How is this going to work? Are there going to be boxes all over the school, all opened by the same key? What if someone loses the key? All those boxes are now unsecured.
Maybe the marshals will have to walk around with the lockbox hanging around their neck?
Lots of questions need to be answered.
Mr. or Mrs. So and So, what’s that box for??? Canwe see whats inside it??? PLEASEEEEEEEEE???
They will get a lot of that...There is no getting around that...
And I amsure that if that box ever did get out of the controlof a teacher or other staff, there are some pretty smart kids there that can open that sucker up in short order...
I have found it really ironic that weapons retention and concealment rereally worked better if you heel somewhere on your person...Not rely upon some box...
The kids are inquisitive, they will notice things, and the less you mess with the firearm and its container, the best...
Let union members of the Texas State Teachers Association be unarmed if they elect to do so on the record.
I believe the local school diustricts would utilize what already works in the state regarding this issue...One in particular has and is always pointed out after one of these soft targets is hit...
My wife’s boss is a fantastic administrator, and if the opportunity arose, I bet I could make a good case to her about this issue...She would probably not have a problem with parent who have current CHL’s and staff to do so,now that this bill is in play...
But I’ll wait to see how this all plays out first...
I’m sure the liberal teachers will pitch a bitch about it if it is ever brought up...
On post 12. Very intelligent and well reasoned arguments. You get my vote.
Ah, but that’s the best part. These ‘marshals’ would be considered law enforcement officers. ‘Outing’ them has legal consequences.
What’s ‘been working’ so far is ‘no guns for you,’ per most Texas school systems. They have been trusting ‘resource officers’ and not allowing teachers with CHLs to carry in the schools. While this bill isn’t perfect, at least it doesn’t block districts who allow CHLs from continuing the practice (and those don’t have to get the 80 hour training or become a marshal) and it does put districts on notice.
Already working in Texas as the story relates.... Big cities like Houston , Dallas etc may have the OMG democrats.
Small and rural districts don’t have OMG problem because they acted vs talked about it in committee with polidiots and presstitutes.
Stay safe ....:o)
Was recently speaking with a teacher out in rural Hood county. Their school district has the OMG problem, and so do many others.
It’s not just the big city districts.
Understand.... Just speaking as to my small towns in my county.... A good cutting horse can separate the OMG’s from the herd . We did...
Stay safe !
Yes, this is true. But I think my point still stands - this doesn’t affect districts that are allowing teacher CHLs to carry on campus, so that continues as before. It lets some districts with OMGs to present this as “hey, they’re going to be trained like cops and basically be cops, so you don’t have to worry about that” and it puts pressure on the NO GUNZ EVAR districts to get their heads out of their nether regions.
In a couple more legislative sessions down the road, just like with CHL, we can work on loosening the restrictions further. And as the ongoing CHL process shows, the OMGs often are less and less heeded as restrictions are slowly removed and they are proven wrong.
It should also be pointed out that such incrementalism is also extremely hard to roll back in sweeping changes like the lefties will want to do should they ever get the state government back.
I would not be so sure of the lack of OMG in rural districts...
Dallas has been dumping their lily-livered retirees on the deep piney woods of east Texas for years...And even though they are mostly empty nesters, and retirees, their politics and sensibilites have permiated that region...
Local, small-town governments, city counsels, HOA’s and other entities...
It may still be salvagable, but the infection is already there and growing...It is very subtle, very deceptive...
I don’t plan on being in Houston forever, and our escape pod is right up there in the middle of all that crap...I’d hate to jump out of the frying pan and into the fire up there...But it is looking ever so dismal everyday...
I think we can stave it off for a while, but our conservative base in these regions are slowly snd surely shedding this earthly coil...
Just my observations...
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