Tennessee Republican lawmakers have passed a bill that would let some teachers and staff carry concealed handguns on public school grounds.
Rep. Ryan Williams, R-Cookeville, right, watches his bill to allow some teachers to be armed in schools pass the House as others react during a legislative session Tuesday, April 23, 2024, in Nashville, Tenn. – Protesters chanted “Blood on your hands” at Tennessee House Republicans on Tuesday after they passed a bill that would allow some teachers and staff to carry concealed handguns on public school grounds, and bar parents and other teachers from knowing who was armed.
The proposal presents a starkly different response to The Covenant School shooting than what Lee proposed last year. Republican legislators quickly cast aside his push to keep guns away from people deemed a danger to themselves or others. Republicans rejected a series of Democratic amendments, including parental consent requirements, notification when someone is armed and the school district assuming civil liability for any injury, damage or death due to staff carrying guns. Democratic state Rep. Justin Jones tried to amend the name of the bill to be the “Refusal to Protect Kids in Schools Act.”
About half of the U.S. states in some form allow teachers or other employees with concealed carry permits to carry guns on school property, according to the Giffords Law Center, a gun control advocacy group.that the Legislature passed last week creating a professional permit for trained school employees to carry at schools that protects them from criminal or civil liability for use of reasonable force.
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