Alamaba to consider training/arming school employees

[BehindBlueI's]

Alabama lawmaker proposes bill allowing teachers to carry guns at school | FOX59

"If a teacher, an administrator, a coach, a principal would like to be armed they can go through a training process. It's going to be a POST (Peace Officer Standards and Training) process used for law enforcement and they can actually carry a firearm in the school system."

 

[HubertGummer]

At least somebody is using their brain.

 

[patience0830]

About freakin time.

 

[lonehoosier]

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[Coach]

Indiana law allows for it to happen the school just has to decide to take the step.

 

[Kutnupe14]

I'd be very surprised if my people in Alabama actually let schools implement this. Alabama is still a very "how it looks" state.

 

[rhino]

Indiana law allows for it to happen the school just has to decide to take the step.

Hopefully more private schools will avail themselves of the opportunity to make everyone on the premises safer. I hold no hope for government schools.

 

[Coach]

Shall issue hand gun permits/licenses seem to have had a positive impact on crime rates. Legislation such as this would help drastically.

 

[Dead Duck]

I'd be very surprised if my people in Alabama actually let schools implement this. Alabama is still a very "how it looks" state.

You have a CREW in Alabama too?

 

[Ark]

So, couldn't an anti-gun school board or higher admin just...fire them? "Don't care what the law says, we don't want guns here, GTFO"?

 

[BehindBlueI's]

So, couldn't an anti-gun school board or higher admin just...fire them? "Don't care what the law says, we don't want guns here, GTFO"?

Dunno. It would depend on how the law is written, if teachers have union protection, what rights employees have in the state, etc. I know jack-diddly about the state of such things in Alabama.

 

[Coach]

Dunno. It would depend on how the law is written, if teachers have union protection, what rights employees have in the state, etc. I know jack-diddly about the state of such things in Alabama.

While not Mississippi, Alabama has always been a little hard to figure. A tall task. Plus I thought it was Bo Diddly.

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

Let the sheepdogs be sheepdogs.

 

[DeadeyeChrista'sdad]

It's about time SOMEONE got serious about protecting their kids.

I find it incredible we've been able to do this here, and yet nobody seems to be doing it. Why not? Liability? Appearances?

 

[Kutnupe14]

It's about time SOMEONE got serious about protecting their kids.

I find it incredible we've been able to do this here, and yet nobody seems to be doing it. Why not? Liability? Appearances?

Both. But in many places around Alabama, certainly appearances.