With the recent school shooting in Townville, South Carolina many residents of South Carolina are asking if it is time to give public school teachers the ability to carry a concealed weapon on school ground to protect themselves and their students. The public policy makers in the South Carolina town will have to decide if they want armed teachers or if they want to hire sworn … [Read more...]
In the state of Indiana, the law has mandated that no firearms be allowed on school grounds, establishing the crime of toting a gun to a place of education as a felony. However, Governor Pearce recently signed a bill into law that will tweak that rule once it goes into effect in July. SB 229 will allow firearms on school grounds, with conditions. Firearms are only to be allowed … [Read more...]
Several news sources have reported a mass stabbing at a public high school just east of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Allegedly, the attacker was a 16-yr-old sophomore at the school, Franklin Regional Senior High, armed with two kitchen knives. According to one report, the young male was running through the crowded school halls before class, slashing and stabbing at anyone in … [Read more...]
From the Virginia Tech shooting in 2007, to the more recent tragedy at Sandy Hook, school shootings have stoked the subject of campus concealed carry into even more heated debate. The polarizing issue seems to have two main responses: Some react with a call for tighter restrictions on firearms and tougher measures to keep guns off school grounds. The other response, in the … [Read more...]
