This State Seeks To Become One of Six Where Second Amendment Applies To Schools

By Tom Knighton

Carrying a gun on school campuses is a controversial topic. It’s ridiculous how controversial the topic is, as a matter of fact. After all, anyone with half a brain knows the people who care what the law says aren’t the ones who will be causing problems in the first place.

That said, only a handful of states allow concealed carry on public school campuses, meaning non-college campuses.

A bill in Michigan seeks to add their state to that list.

Michigan would be in the minority – joining just a handful of states nationwide – if legislation eliminating a ban on concealed guns in schools was signed into law, according to a national gun violence prevention group.

Information compiled by the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence shows six states – Alabama, Alaska, New Hampshire, Oregon, Rhode Island and Utah – allow residents with concealed pistol licenses to carry firearms in K-12 schools.

In Hawaii, there’s no relevant law on the matter, meaning it’s generally up to individual school districts to set policy on the matter, said Hannah Shearer, an attorney at the Giffords center, named after former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who was injured in a 2011 mass …Read the Rest

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