A state lawmaker says giving trained schoolteachers and staff access to firearms in storage lockers is a way to secure campuses when it isn't possible to provide resource officers. His bill to allow that has won committee approval and is awaiting action by the full House. ... Read more»
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Rep. David Stevens, R-Sierra Vista, shown in a file photo, wants to allow trained school employees to store a firearm on campus to protect against an attack such as the one that occurred in Newtown, Conn.
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I’m on the fence about this. I once worked at a very rural school and we often had illegals come on the campus wanting to use the phone. I’ll not admit to any illegal act here but in each case they were turned away with no problem. The nearest law enforcement was at least twenty minutes away….on a good day. I am a well trained & highly skilled retired military marksman with a lot of previously intense training behind me.
It is this same background that gives me concern about this proposed legislation. If a highly trained SWAT team can fire 71 rounds into the confined space of a home with only 26 body hits with the remaining rounds penetrating walls and other nearby buildings I have graves concern how a CCW trained adult would react to such a stressful situation as confronting a rampaging gunman.
Okay, a bit grammatically incorrect but the gist of this is the cure has the potential for being just as tragic as the problem it is intended to resolve.