Schools Looking To Allow Teachers To Carry May Face Major Hurdle

By Micah Rate

As the push for allowing teachers to decide if they want to carry firearms in schools continues, some states are facing a financial hurdle that lawmakers and supporters of the move may not have considered. Insurance companies are raising prices or are threatening to pull coverage altogether if teachers decide to carry.

In a report from NBC News, after Kansas passed a law in 2013 allowing teachers to carry a firearm on campus, an insurance company that covers many of the state’s schools said it would no longer do so if teachers decided to bring their guns into classrooms.

Kansas passed a law in 2013 that allowed members of school staff to be armed after the Sandy Hook massacre claimed the lives of 20 elementary school children. But five years later, no Kansas school employee has legally brought a gun onto a public K-12 campus.

What the state lawmakers didn’t expect, perhaps, was the response from EMC Insurance Companies, a liability insurance company that covers most Kansas school districts.

EMC immediately sent out a letter to its agents in response to the prospect that districts could legally allow teachers to be armed on their campuses.

“EMC has concluded that concealed handguns on …Read the Rest

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