Altoona, PA Looking To Arm Private Security Guards For Schools

By Tom Knighton

With all the talk about school safety and concern about mass shootings at schools, one would think lawmakers would be looking for any edge possible so as to combat this scourge. While the claims of this being some kind of an epidemic are grossly overstated, we can all agree that even one mass shooting is one too many, particularly at a school.

Yet for all the talk of guns being bad and more guns on campus being a terrible idea, Pennsylvania’s Democratic governor recently signed a bill to allow private security guards to carry guns at Pennsylvania schools, so long as they undergo certain training.

Altoona, Pennsylvania appears to be one of the first communities to take advantage of that law.

Altoona Area is the only school district in Blair County moving to allow trained civilian security guards to carry guns in school.

Other area districts won’t be arming civilian security guards, but they might employ school resource officers or contract with law enforcement agencies for personnel authorized to carry weapons.

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This month, over the objections of some gun-control groups, Gov. Tom Wolf signed a law clarifying that civilian security guards with proper training can carry a weapon on school property.

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Source:: Bearing Arms

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