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

[Diamond_Dog]

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.