HOUSTON (Reuters) – A Texas school district will let teachers bring guns to class this fall, the district’s superintendent said on Friday, in what experts said appeared to be a first in the United States.
The board of the small rural Harrold Independent School District unanimously approved the plan and parents have not objected, said the district’s superintendent, David Thweatt.
School experts backed Thweatt’s claim that Harrold, a system of about 110 students 150 miles northwest of Fort Worth, may be the first to let teachers bring guns to the classroom.
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Teachers who wish to bring guns will have to be certified to carry a concealed handgun in Texas and get crisis training and permission from school officials, he said.
That looks like a plan for the school district to help make the students safer. We have seen plenty of examples where a disarmed citizenry were little more than human targets for a gunman intent on killing as many as possible. We’ve also seen at least one case where shooting spree was ended by a responsible citizen carrying a gun of their own.
I’d like to see more school systems go this route.
Tags: Gun Control, Second Amendment, Texas
