Governor Nixon: Don't Arm Missouri School Teachers
Legislation that would allow teachers with concealed weapons permits to carry guns in school has the support of Missouri House Republican leaders.
A spokesman for Missouri Governor Jay Nixon announced Monday that Nixon has sent letters to all 520 public school superintendents in the state, opposing legislation that would allow teachers with concealed weapons permits to carry their weapon at school. The bill for the 2013 legislative session was filed following the Newtown, CT shooting which left 26 people, including 20 children, dead at Sandy Hook Elementary School. It is co-sponsored by House Republican leaders, including House Speaker Tim Jones and Majority Leader John Diehl. “Here in Missouri we have a strong framework of laws to protect students and educators, such as the Missouri Safe Schools Act, which passed with broad bipartisan support in 1996. Current law also allows local …
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Scott Jones
9:25 am on Friday, December 28, 2012
This so called "safe school act" truly amounts to a bunch of signs that only honest people will respect,criminals and deranged people couldn't care less. Do we think our teachers are incapable of learning and being apart of a safety plan that included the use of firearms if they we're will to train for such a position? My wife is a teacher in Missouri and she has no desire to carry but she is not… more ›