Arkansas school district's plan to arm teachers ruled illegal

[Robb]

Thank goodness.

A Clarksville, Ark., schools faculty member, wearing a protective mask, carries a practice handgun toward a classroom in a training exercise July 11.

A controversial program to arm teachers and school staff members in an Arkansas town was shot down Thursday as illegal under state law.

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The new plan — which would have armed about 20 volunteer teachers and staff members — troubled some legislators, who sought a ruling on its legality from state Attorney General Dustin McDaniel.

In an opinion issued Thursday, McDaniel said state codes don't authorize "either licensing a school district as a guard company or classifying it as a private business authorized to employ its own teachers as armed guards."

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[chillfactor]

1. thank god someone in Arkansas.....

has some common sense....want in the hell was the school thinking?

[Cannikin]

2. It's not the school, it's the GOP.

They are pushing all of these gun laws on us. Follow the "outrage" on Twitter #ARLEG