Texas is on the job. The visionary legislators in that state totally get what to do about school shooters showing up and slaughtering unarmed teachers and kids.The 'Protection of Texas Children Act' written just after Sandy Hook is now on Gov. Rick Perry's desk.
The soon to be signed law allows schools to place one armed marshal (can be a teacher) on campus, one for every 400 students. Their identities to remain hidden, omitted from public records.
Marshals who are also teachers must keep their guns in a 'lockbox within immediate reach.' Non teacher marshals can simply conceal-and-carry their firearms while on duty.
Texas already allows teachers with conceal-and-carry permits to bring concealed guns to school, but only if the school gives permission - so far few have done so. This law takes schools out of that loop.
Texas also reduced the training time to needed to get a conceal-and-carry permit. Some 500,000 have the permit already. About a million more will soon take advantage of the eased restrictions.
As Texas Senator Brian Birdwell noted: "The Second Amendment is not about the gun, it's about the right to self-preservation."
So while the blue states leave their teachers to bring just a grimace to a gun fight, evolved states like Texas and Arizona are a little more serious about stopping school carnage. So be it.
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