Media Grasps At Giffords’ BS Stats In Bid To Block Armed Teachers

By Tom Knighton

In the state of Florida, there are 176,537 teachers in public schools. I don’t have a number for private schools in the state, but it’s safe to assume we’re looking at something 200,000 teachers.

That’s a decent sized portion of the total number of teachers throughout the nation, not counting school staff, the very same teachers blasted by Giffords recently as being completely irresponsible with their guns. The very same Giffords who made a whopping 12 incidents a year sound like a national epidemic.

After the Parkland shooting last year, a modest package of gun-control laws passed through the Florida Legislature with one notable deletion: language about arming schoolteachers. As part of a compromise, lawmakers agreed to remove the controversial measure — but this year, the idea is back.

Tomorrow a state Senate bill that would allow trained teachers to carry guns at school (SB 7030) will go up for a vote before the Senate Appropriations Committee. A vote on the companion House bill has been temporarily postponedwhile members of both chambers negotiate the differences between the two measures.

Although the proposal to arm teachers is popular among some conservatives, most Floridians oppose such a …Read the Rest

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