Posted April 30, 2018 8:30 pm by Comments

By John Crump

Faster School Training Safety Students Guns Teachers
First School District in Georgia Will Allow Select Staff to Carry

U.S.A.-(Ammoland.com)- The Laurens County school board in Georgia has decided to protect their students by voting to allow select staff members carry guns.

Laurens County is the first school district in Georgia to make a policy that allows for armed teachers and other staff members according to the Georgia School Boards Association. Other school districts and other states have been allowing armed teachers, and none of the schools with armed teachers and staff have had a mass shooting.

In 2014 Georgia passed a law that allowed individual school districts to decide whether to allow their employees to carry guns on school property. The state bill passed both legislative body easily. GeorgiaCarry lobbied for the bill and even Jimmy Carter’s grandson Jason Carter voted to pass the bill that opponents labeled the “guns everywhere bill.”

The program will be voluntary, and no teachers or staff will be required to carry a gun. Those who choose to carry a firearm will receive intensive training in conjunction with the Laurens County Sheriff’s Department. All firearms will be concealed carried, and no staff or teachers will openly carry their guns.

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Source:: AmmoLand

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