South Carolina Pushes to Arm Teachers After Tragic School Shooting

By Bob Owens

After a deranged teenager murdered his mother to acquire her guns, and then carried out a shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, (CT), lawmakers in the northeast rushed through a raft of legislation to restrict the rights of gun owners, but took few steps to actually increase the physical security of their students.

Students in Connecticut, Maryland, and New York, are no safer after the Sandy Hook massacre than they were before it.

After a deranged teenager murdered his father to acquire his guns and carried out a shooting at Townville Elementary School in Townville (SC), a lawmaker is putting for a new bill that may actually give faculty, staff, and students a fighting chance.

After a 14-year-old shot and killed a six-year-old student on the grounds of an elementary school, a South Carolina lawmaker is drafting legislation that would allow teachers to take up arms.

Republican State Rep. Joshua Putnam is putting forth the new bill to let teachers volunteer to carry weapons.

“It would incorporate mostly live shooter scenarios. So then teachers are familiar with how to approach that gunman on campus, how to interact with getting children away from… danger situations and how to confront that until …Read the Rest

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