Some Ohio teachers 'terrified' over new bill allowing educators to carry guns in school
ABC News via Yahoo NewsThe bill overrules an Ohio Supreme Court decision from last year that required teachers to receive gun training equivalent to the training police officers receive. If signed into law by the governor, it would create a minimum training commitment of 24 hours for teachers who voluntarily choose to carry guns in schools.
"I think that the idea to arm teachers is a way for lawmakers to pass the buck on much bigger issues," Tate Moore, a seventh-grade English teacher in Ohio, told ABC News.
Moore said he is worried about the "unintended consequences" of teachers carrying guns in schools, saying something bad could happen.
"It seems like more things are getting added to our plate. And nothing is being taken off," Moore said. "I'm just not sure how much more teachers can take."
Moore said it is not a teacher's job to stop a school shooter.
"I have yet to find one teacher who thinks it's a good idea for teachers to carry firearms," he said.
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The first allowed teachers to have guns on school grounds, with district permission.
The second restricted it to teachers in a "school marshall" program (there may be an alternative to that; dunno). Additional training, must be supervised and reported to the school admin, gun (only handguns) must be kept in locked, secure location (which does *not* mean "in the school cop's locked desk inside the school cop's locked office"
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I don't even know if my school district has approved this, but I doubt it.
I do know teachers that I'd trust with firearms at school. Not always the ones that would participate, of course. The programs require training way past what's necessary for concealed weapon permits, but not nearly what cops need. (When you read the descriptions, you usually just hear that the teachers would need the additional training--no mention of the other prerequisite training.)
No, open-carry laws do *not* apply here.
Now, this has been going on for 4 years. In four years with a couple hundred school districts approving this, I haven't heard of a single case where this mattered--for good or for bad. No stolen guns, no teachers going ballistic, no teachers downing some beserker.
