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Eugene

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Wed Feb 21, 2024, 07:47 PM Feb 2024

West Virginia House OKs bill to allow teachers with training to carry guns, other weapons in schools

Source: Associated Press

West Virginia House OKs bill to allow teachers with training to carry guns, other weapons in schools

BY LEAH WILLINGHAM
Updated 5:54 PM EST, February 21, 2024

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia’s Republican-controlled House of Delegates voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to allow teachers and other school staff who undergo training to carry guns in K-12 public schools.

The bill, which now heads to the Senate, would allow teachers, administrators and support personnel with concealed carry permits to volunteer to bring a firearm into school with the intention of using it to defend the school in case of an active shooter event. Designated a “school protection officer,” the staffer wouldn’t receive any additional compensation for doing so.

Supporters say not every school system in West Virginia can afford to hire a full-time school resource officer. This program would provide another option.

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Read more: https://apnews.com/article/teachers-schools-guns-west-virginia-1cc12756d4c249314aad6e3e5e5015d8

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West Virginia House OKs bill to allow teachers with training to carry guns, other weapons in schools (Original Post) Eugene Feb 2024 OP
Arming teachers: Dumbest. Idea. Ever. albacore Feb 2024 #1
Do they have immunity if they kill a child? Does the state provide liability insurance? keithbvadu2 Feb 2024 #2

albacore

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1. Arming teachers: Dumbest. Idea. Ever.
Wed Feb 21, 2024, 08:12 PM
Feb 2024

Kids are into everything. There is no safe place to store a firearm in a school. Teachers are not gunfighters.

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