Proposed law would allow Ohio teachers to carry guns in schools with 20 hours of training

[Diamond_Dog]

Cross posted n Ohio group.

Insanity!!

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Under the bill, teachers, janitors, cafeteria staff and basically anyone who isn’t a student could carry a gun with a certain amount of training.

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“How can you possibly expect somebody who has only 20 hours of training, including only two hours of hands-on training with a weapon, to be able to perform in a way that protects everybody’s safety in their crisis?” DiMauro asked. “When Mike DeWine was attorney general of the State of Ohio, this same body set a standard of approximately 150 hours for training. That seems to be much more reasonable given the high stakes that are involved when you’re talking about the lives of students and staff in our schools.”

With the reduced amount of training, the bill has garnered opponents such as DiMauro and the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) of Ohio’s Michael Weinman.

“We don’t think that the training hours are adequate for what they’re going to be doing in their schools,” Weinman said. “[It’s] carrying a firearm and discharge a firearm in possibly a crowded room or a cafeteria, being able to retain that weapon if the students could want to take away that weapon from them.”

https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2022/04/04/proposed-law-would-allow-ohio-teachers-to-carry-guns-in-schools-with-20-hours-of-training/

*** My husband is a retired teacher from an inner city school system and he thinks this idea is total insanity.

[CincyDem]

1. What could go wrong?

I’m glad this wasn’t in vogue when I was a high schooler. That punch in the gut coulda been much more, maybe permanently debilitating. Yes…the joys of private school in the 70s.

[doc03]

2. From my experience I wouldn't go to

school if some of the teachers I had were packing heat.

[SheltieLover]

10. +1,000,000!!!

Hell no!

[maxsolomon]

3. Why have any training at all?

Just make them carry an MSSA with a finger over the trigger guard the entire time they teach. Firearms everywhere in every hand (except for "thugs&quot all the time is the Natural State of the 2nd Amendment.

It's what LaPierre of Nazareth would want.

[exboyfil]

4. Odds that the first kid killed by accident

will be a black kid?

[gratuitous]

5. Well, that's easier than any of that "well-regulated" nonsense that everyone knows doesn't work

It's so strange how all these deaths don't seem to persuade the gunistas that regulating possession of a firearm might be a good idea. But if even one errant bullet is discharged in a regulated environment (say, a courthouse or a legislative chamber where sane people rule and firearms aren't generally allowed), that's all the proof needed that regulations don't do squat.

[Emile]

6. If everybody had a gun, nobody would get shot!

SARCASM

[Chainfire]

7. So, when they get hit in the back of the head with a spitball

I guess that they will be able to stand their ground and kill the kid and claim immunity from prosecution.

It won't be long before some big disturbed kid takes a gun from a teacher and goes on a shooting spree. It is as predictable as the sunrise. The very teachers that would bring guns into the classroom are the ones who would be the most dangerous. If they are too damn scared to teach without a gun, they need to find another job.

It is insanity.

[keithbvadu2]

8. Packing heat

[keithbvadu2]

9. Can the schools get insurance? (from four years ago)

One roadblock to arming teachers: Insurance companies

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/one-roadblock-to-arming-teachers-insurance-companies/2018/05/26/59d6c704-5f7e-11e8-8c93-8cf33c21da8d_story.html?utm_term=.9b6f847c405c&wpisrc=nl_most&wpmm=1

[Darwins_Retriever]

11. You've heard of "Going Postal"

Soon we will be introduced to "Going Pedagogical."

[hunter]

12. Shooting one or two students each semester would certainly help with class discipline.

I've told you one too many times to stay in your seat, young man... BAM!



Sadly, that's not farfetched.