So I suck at law stuff. Is this just for pre-college school? Like government run schools? Because I thought that keeping your firearm in your car on a college campus was LEGAL (even though not usually allowed by the school).
I hadn't thought about the bus driver issue.
One part that I can see being an issue that the news has been talking about is guns on school buses. While I am 100% for no gun free zones, keeping a gun on a bus locked up or not, is asking for trouble. I can remember numerous times the bus drivers would leave the bus untended, keys in the ignition. It wouldn't take a genius to figure the key you lock up a gun with would end up on the same ring. Not that there is a huge chance that it would be an issue, but it would only take that one time. With parents raising kids the way that they do in today's world, I am sure that there will be that one kid, and then it would be all for naught.
Now, if the law were amended to require bus drivers who choose to be armed while in the service of the school to keep the gun on their person, I would be much more comfortable with that scenario.. But then, I am more comfortable with any scenario that keeps a gun on the responsible person as opposed to locked up or "out of sight, not on person" any day.
So I heard on the news they passed the law allowing people to keep guns in their locked vehicles on school property. Are there any loopholes or parts of the law that one should worry about?
I took a shotgun on the bus with me when I went to high school and then took it in the school and put it in my locker on a regular basis so what's the big deal?[/QUOTE
40 yrs ago it was no big deal, we use to build cross-bows in wood shop. Gun racks with guns in them were common in high school parking lots. Pistols were always a no-no, back then boys settled things with their fist, or maybe a knive, guns were no usually a part of it. But in todays environment "bully's" can not be stopped, because no one want's to fight them, I blame this on local courts and school officals, in my day you ether took it or learn to make a fist and stop it. With all the school shooting of late everyone is afraid the bully or vic will bring a gun to settle the score. This law will not change that but will provide anyone with a licence to keep their firearm in the locked car on school properity and parents to pick up their children without a felony being commited. at least that is my take on it.
School busses are "company vehicles", not privately owned, and therefore the owner has the right to prohibit possession of weapons while inside. Similar to the parking lot law, if it is a private car in the lot then ok, but a company car is subject to company rules. Unless I am missing something, I haven't read anywhere where the law forces school systems to allow bus drivers, or any other employee, to carry and/or store a weapon in a company vehicle, or the inside the school itself, for that matter.
Most effective place for the gun...locked in your car when you need it. another stupid law.
Most effective place for the gun...locked in your car when you need it. another stupid law.