Marshall: Some School Staff Should Carry Guns
In response to the shootings at a school in Connecticut, Del. Bob Marshall has a proposal to arm some teachers.
National legislators are discussing the possibility of enacting tighter gun control laws after the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT. But in Virginia, a local legislator has proposed that some school staff be required to bear arms. Del. Bob Marshall (13th district) has proposed a bill that would require schools to have some staff, certified in gun safety and competence, carry concealed weapons, The Washington Post reported Wednesday. His proposal comes on the heels of Gov. Bob McDonnell's comments on WTOP that the state should consider allowing teachers to carry weapons in schools. As the Post notes, Marshall's proposal takes the idea a step farther, by ordering schools to arm some staff members. Gun control and …
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shawn anes
7:36 am on Sunday, December 23, 2012
wow marie s. you won't send your child to a school where people are armed but you will let them go to a school where the people have no way at all to protect your child from the armed.???? Better keep your children from malls, banks, disney world, and all other places where there are minimally trained people with guns. There called security guards. But hey they took a class and have a cool shiny … more ›