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The lock box added is BS.... Any weapon left unattended on school grounds is IMO BS.... Give the teacher firearms retention training, keep their identity from public or student knowledge etc ...

I say trash this bill and stick with what a lot of Texas school districts are already doing.... Let school employees aka , clerks, cooks, janitorial, teachers, etc ... with a CHL and additional training be authorized by school board and local Sheriff and PD.

I would add that volunteers with CHL’s should be allowed to perform same job. Lots of retired military, LEO/FLEA’s and knowledgable folks that can drink their morning coffee in the cafeteria, get some exercise in the weight room, surf free republic in the school library , change their oil in the auto mechanics shop , help the janitors, grounds keepers, librarian etc ...

Meet a board of school supervisors, lawyers and law enforcement with your résumé, pass a background and be briefed and understand you are not there to interact with the students at all as an authority. Not to break up arguments, snag rule violators, hall pass violators etc ...

Your lone assignment is to mitigate the damage from a armed attack on students by stopping the attack.

If these folks are worried about working directly with students when armed then make them use a revolver modified with the magna trigger system.

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Not a lock box fan on this issue....

My opinion...

Thing is, it wouldn’t pass if we did that. Remember, we have the “OMG, TEACHER WILL SHOOT UP CLASS” idiots already. The idea is that we start with this and once those people are discredited some we can ‘loosen’ the restrictions more.

They didn’t get to “NO GUNS” laws overnight. Incrementalism is how we got into this mess. Incrementalism is how we’re getting out of it.

I agree...Like I illuded to in my post...This is a feel good measure that is intended to stave off folks like us who ARE more capable already to handle a situation like this...

But the lawyers, litigious nature of our school system doesn’t alllow for us to be trusted, een though our track record is and will be much better than anyone certified in this bills system...

Now, my wife may do this since she is a teacher, and her classroom is a portable building on one side of the campus...She is a great shooter, but she is physically incapable of transiting the distance to the other side of the school to effectively be a response for that campus...And since the bill doesn’t allow for more teachers to be armed, more than one employee per 400 students...Her schools population is about 550 kids...There is not another person that could be in position because of that requirement in the law...

Seems like this effort was doomed to deter teachers or other staff from actually obtaining this certification to begin with...