Ohio Representative Floats Idea Of Allowing High Schoolers To Carry In Class

By Micah Rate

While students staged walkouts on Thursday in remembrance of the lives lost in the mass shooting at in Parkland, Florida and to protest guns, legislators at the state and federal levels are proposing various bills and ideas to keep schools and students safe from gun violence. Among those solutions is more armed security at schools or allowing teachers themselves to carry guns on campus. Now a representative for the state of Ohio suggested something that no else one has thought of.

Republican Rep. Niraj Antani (R-Miamisburg) floated the idea that 18-year-old high school students should be allowed to carry rifles in school if they meet the legal requirements and want to do so. Here’s the story from Dayton Daily News:

The issue came up during a Twitter dispute Wednesday between the state lawmaker and Zach Dickerson, a Democratic primary candidate for the District 42 seat Antani currently holds.