As author Larry Correia said here:I'm in the process of putting three children through school. I've met a lot of teachers. Most haven't seemed like the ideal gun carrier to me. I vote we make it legal for all proper persons to be armed on public school property, employee, parent and visitor alike. Obviously prohibiting guns in public schools hasn't been efficacious.
Sounds like TX needs pre-emption laws like IN.More than 30% of the 1200+ Texas independent school districts have armed (non-police) staff. State law requires only that the school board approve in writing that someone with a LTC has permission to carry on school property.
Unfortunately Uvalde was not one of them.
They are mostly smaller rural districts, and the vast majority use a template called the Guardian Program. The district (not the state) decides who carries, what training they get, and any other hoops they have to jump through, like a psych eval. The state Department of Public Safety has a training program that the schools can send their staff to, and many of the schools take advantage of it, but the school can hire private/civilian instructors instead.
The big city ISDs are decidedly more leftish and poo-poo teacher carry, and they can hire cops from the local city PD, or establish their own PDs. I believe Uvalde had school resource officers, like Parkland did.
um, I don’t follow. Pre-empt what, exactly?Sounds like TX needs pre-emption laws like IN.
I was referring to this:um, I don’t follow. Pre-empt what, exactly?
As far as I can tell Indiana and Texas have similar law on arming teachers, i.e. local school board has option to allow arming of staff or not. Appears to me that texas is way ahead on districts actually doing so.
Maybe I misunderstand. But in IN, the localities cannot override state law. Any "hoops to jump through" would be uniform throughout the state. (I think that's how it works, not entirely sure.)The district (not the state) decides who carries, what training they get, and any other hoops they have to jump through, like a psych eval.
Oh, I see. These requirements are for their employees, i.e. Teachers, administrators. I don’t think that requiring training for the purpose of protecting students overrides state carry law in any way, Since carry on school property is completely discretionary by the school board.I was referring to this:
Maybe I misunderstand. But in IN, the localities cannot override state law. Any "hoops to jump through" would be uniform throughout the state. (I think that's how it works, not entirely sure.)
My wife is a teacher and doesn't appear to look like a concealed carry person. She kicks major booty for only being 5'-4" @ 120lbs during force on force training.
Yeah, I'm betting Utah has less "urban-osity" there...Larry Correia has also said that, in the years since Utah began allowing teachers to be armed in schools, there have been zero school shootings. How much of that is societal and how much is deterrence is unknown. (That last sentence is my opinion, not his.)