Angry protests as Tennessee Republicans pass law allowing teachers to carry concealed weapons

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Source: UK Independent

10 hours ago


Tennessee teachers could soon carry concealed handguns in the classroom after Republican state senators passed a bill amid angry protests. The bill’s passing comes a few weeks after the first anniversary of the mass shooting at The Covenant School in Nashville, which left six students and staff dead.

Around 200 gun-reform advocates disrupted proceedings on Tuesday as they voiced their opposition to the bill from the Senate’s gallery, according to The Tennessean, with some eventually removed from the room. They were angry at the plans which would allow teachers and other school staff to carry guns, with the legislation also including a ban on anyone else carrying firearms on school property.

Teachers would not need to disclose if they are carrying a weapon, the bill says - something which led to chants of “shame on you” from the gallery. The bill still needs to pass the Tennessee General Assembly’s House, with no date yet set for it to be tabled.

If the new rules come in, Tennessee would join over 30 states which allow school personnel or teachers to carry a firearm, something gun safety groups have spoken out against repeatedly. Everytown for Gun Safety and Moms Demand Action argue that arming teachers puts children at further risk.

Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/tennessee-teachers-concealed-weapons-bill-b2526040.html

[Emile]

1. The right-wing answer is more guns.

If everyone has a gun, no one would get shot.

[keithbvadu2]

2. Armed teacher

[70sEraVet]

3. 400 cops failed to confront the shooter at Uvalde.

But a handful of under-paid teachers are going to solve the gun problems in Tennessee?
Tennessee is run by idiots.

[groundloop]

4. The only people benefitting from this are gun manufacturers.

[FakeNoose]

5. What could go wrong?

[Mysterian]

6. Trump-publican state governments are racing to outdo one another in stupidity

Watch for West Virginia and other bumpkin state governments to do the same.

[malthaussen]

7. Is it just me, or is Tennessee trying really hard to lead the race to the bottom?

Florida and Texas beware!

-- Mal

[CRK7376]

8. I carried weapons as a Soldier for over 21 years.

As a former High School History teacher I never had or would carry a weapon to school. I taught in a title one school with poor kids who heard gunfire from their apartments most nights, but never in our schools. I am very comfortable around firearms but would never carry one in the classroom. I can see a distracted teacher leaving a weapon on the copy machine or dropping their pistol in the toilet or sitting down in the teacher's lounge and absent mindedly leaving their weapon in the breakroom.....GUNS IN SCHOOL NOT GOOD! Only SROs (School Resource Officers cops or sheriff deputy) should be allowed to carry weapons on campus.