Angry protests as Tennessee Republicans pass law allowing teachers to carry concealed weapons
Source: UK Independent
10 hours ago
Tennessee teachers could soon carry concealed handguns in the classroom after Republican state senators passed a bill amid angry protests. The bills passing comes a few weeks after the first anniversary of the mass shooting at The Covenant School in Nashville, which left six students and staff dead.
Around 200 gun-reform advocates disrupted proceedings on Tuesday as they voiced their opposition to the bill from the Senates gallery, according to The Tennessean, with some eventually removed from the room. They were angry at the plans which would allow teachers and other school staff to carry guns, with the legislation also including a ban on anyone else carrying firearms on school property.
Teachers would not need to disclose if they are carrying a weapon, the bill says - something which led to chants of shame on you from the gallery. The bill still needs to pass the Tennessee General Assemblys House, with no date yet set for it to be tabled.
If the new rules come in, Tennessee would join over 30 states which allow school personnel or teachers to carry a firearm, something gun safety groups have spoken out against repeatedly. Everytown for Gun Safety and Moms Demand Action argue that arming teachers puts children at further risk.
Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/tennessee-teachers-concealed-weapons-bill-b2526040.html
Emile
(23,359 posts)If everyone has a gun, no one would get shot.
keithbvadu2
(37,145 posts)70sEraVet
(3,587 posts)But a handful of under-paid teachers are going to solve the gun problems in Tennessee?
Tennessee is run by idiots.
groundloop
(11,546 posts)FakeNoose
(33,019 posts)Mysterian
(4,616 posts)Watch for West Virginia and other bumpkin state governments to do the same.
malthaussen
(17,250 posts)Florida and Texas beware!
-- Mal
CRK7376
(2,205 posts)As a former High School History teacher I never had or would carry a weapon to school. I taught in a title one school with poor kids who heard gunfire from their apartments most nights, but never in our schools. I am very comfortable around firearms but would never carry one in the classroom. I can see a distracted teacher leaving a weapon on the copy machine or dropping their pistol in the toilet or sitting down in the teacher's lounge and absent mindedly leaving their weapon in the breakroom.....GUNS IN SCHOOL NOT GOOD! Only SROs (School Resource Officers cops or sheriff deputy) should be allowed to carry weapons on campus.
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