Posted on 06/04/2022 9:31:35 AM PDT by rktman
In the wake of the deadly Uvalde school shooting that left 19 kids and two adults dead, the heated debate of whether to arm teachers or not has been a major topic between both parties.
In the midst of all the gun control talk, Ohio may soon allow teachers to be armed in classrooms.
HB 99, which passed by a 23-9 vote in the State Senate and a 56-34 vote in the State House, was fast-tracked through the legislature, allowing teachers and other school staff to carry guns on school premises requiring only 24 hours of training.
It would mandate at least 18 hours of general training, two hours of handgun training, two hours of "additional" general training, and two hours of "additional" handgun training, as well as requiring teachers to get yearly background checks.
In a statement, Gov. Mike Dewine (R-OH) defended the bill that he is expected to sign saying, “My office worked with the General Assembly to remove hundreds of hours of curriculum irrelevant to school safety and to ensure training requirements were specific to a school environment and contained significant scenario-based training,” adding “House Bill 99 accomplishes these goals, and I thank the General Assembly for passing this bill to protect Ohio children and teachers. I look forward to signing this important legislation."
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
Now if they can only get a teacher to shoot another teacher...
“Did they learn nothing from having armed folks on campus during Kent state?”
What is your point? Seems strange and unrelated to the OP article.
And why add the question mark to the headline?
Training:
In case of active shooter...
Point, shoot until active shooter is DEAD. Reload if necessary.
Yep, they’re working on that as we speak.
Israel protects school children with teachers who carry automatic rifles. The attacks on their schools stopped. Why are we so incapable of learning this lesson? Are there really people who think children being murdered is good because it gives them emotional fodder for gun control?
Yes, there are.
24 hours of training....is a lot of training. Our NYS Safety course is a couple hours at the most.
What??
National Guards not the same as teachers working at the school.
But please share with us how you conflate the two.
I think he is saying the left Will,use that as an excuse to reject armed guards and teachers.
Kent state-—guns on campus
(?)—————surprise at the approval
Authorities with guns and students. Could be the anti 2nd folks argument. That’s all.
We have a winner!
Thanks. I hate being a loser lol
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Ohio already allows school personnel to carry, but the old law stipulated that they go through a nine month law officer training program. An impossible hurdle. This new law, assuming deWhine signs it, will cut that to 24 hours.
It’s pathetic that we have to go to such lengths to protect our schools, but the degradation of our culture stemming from rap, drugs, and social media make it necessary.
In my lifetime boys used to bring their rifles to school after an early morning hunt, and nobody thought anything of it. As a ten-year-old I could and did buy .22 shorts from the little general store in the village, if I had the money.
Not no more
A friend of mine teaches 9th grade science and would like to CC. I told him he could have a gun in a biometric case near his desk but he was worried the police might mistake him for a shooter. I told him the school should give him and the other teachers a special baseball cap to wear so police know he is a teacher. He thought he would propose that.
While I believe schools need armed protection, I do not believe that teachers are necessarily the ones to provide it. Schools need trained professionals preferably LEOs on the premises. Perhaps in smaller schools where local law enforcement doesn’t have the officers to provide this coverage a teacher or administrator could be trained. We should also not overlook our military veterans who have the firearms and tactical training.
100,000+ drug ODs last year but, gun lobby.............
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