Texas May Soon Have More School Marshals

By Tom Knighton

Steve Gonzales/Houston Chronicle via AP, File

With a lot of attention still going to Parkland, I suspect a lot of people have already forgotten about the Santa Fe High School Shooting last year. Texas, however, hasn’t. It’s played a factor in policy decisions since it happened, though not in the same way anti-gun activists wanted or expected.

Instead, Texas has approached it in a different direction, one I dare say is far saner. They didn’t go with pie in the sky ideas about gun control that likely wouldn’t work anyway. They took steps to make sure if someone did try a repeat of what happened at Santa Fe High School, they’d get a rude awakening.

Now, one of those measures may be getting a nice tweak.

In the first legislative session after a deadly shooting at Santa Fe High School that left 10 dead and 13 others wounded, the Texas Senate on Monday advanced a bill that would abolish the limit on how many trained school employees — known as school marshals — can carry guns on campus.

Under the marshal program, school personnel whose identities are kept secret from all but a few local officials, are trained to act as …Read the Rest

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