Texas To Allow School Marshals To Keep Guns On Person?

By Tom Knighton

States with school marshal programs typically did so with the understanding that those who have completed the required training can have a gun on hand should a school shooting take place. The term “school marshal” is clearly a play on the “air marshals” that became so well-known following 9/11.

It’s a solid idea, after all. Make sure good people with guns are on hand to deal with bad people with guns. Throwing a stapler won’t stop the next Parkland, but 124 grains of jacketed hollow point just might.

However, Texas had a bit of a flaw in its system. It seemed that school marshals were required to lock their guns up. That introduced a lot of failure points into a system designed to keep kids safe, up to an including making it easier to identify who the marshals are.

Now, the Texas Senate has fixed that flaw.

After a brief debate, the Texas Senate approved a bill Wednesday that would allow local school boards to let their marshals carry their concealed guns on campuses.

The legislation — Senate Bill 406 by Republican state Sen. Brian Birdwell of Granbury — would eliminate the mandate that trained …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms