Armed Teachers - Page 2

On the February 14, 2019, President Trump honored the victims of that heinous attack and recommitted to the safety of children.

A report from Reuters reveals that a “top priority” for Moms Demand Action is being sure teachers remained unarmed in Florida classrooms.

The commission investigating the February 14, Parkland school shooting issued their report calling for teachers to be armed for defense of themselves and their students.

Parkland father Andrew Pollack is calling out House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) for her fight against President Trump’s efforts to protect teachers, students. 

President Trump doubled down Tuesday by stressing that armed teachers are a critical part of “hardening” schools in America.

President Donald Trump’s school safety commission recommends that schools train and arm personnel to help prevent mass shootings, White House officials previewed on Tuesday.

The commission investigating the February 14 Parkland school shooting voted 13 to 1 Wednesday to arm teachers.

News coming out of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Commission indicates the February 14 gunman paused five times to reload but no one was armed to intervene.

Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri is leading an investigation into the February 14, 2018, Parkland high school shooting and insists teachers must be armed to stop attacks.

Glamour magazine is promoting five high school gun controllers as “Women of the Year” ahead of the November 6 midterm elections.

Moms Demand Action is fighting to ensure Arkansas teachers cannot shoot back if present when one of their schools is attacked.

In a letter posted August 31 Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos made clear she will neither stand in the way of funding to armed teachers nor will she seek to provide such funding.

Idaho educator McKay Gardner pressed the Preston School District to allow teachers “more than a soup can to defend themselves.”

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) pledged Thursday to fight Trump administration policies that would arm teachers to defend their own lives and the lives of their students if under attack.

Bismarck, North Dakota, is seeking fifteen AR-15s for school resource officers (SROs), and they want to store those guns at the schools, where officers could quickly grab them in the event of an attack.

An outpouring of Southeast Texas school districts announced plans this week to bolster security measures through the end of the academic year in response to Friday’s horrific high school shooting in the nearby Santa Fe Independent School District.

Just months after Gov. Jerry Brown (D) signed a bill barring K-12 teachers from being armed for self-defense, Assemblyman Jim Cooper (D-9) is pushing a tax on firearms to pay for school security.

More Texas school districts continue to weigh safety options to become better prepared in the event of intruders, active shooters, and other potentially deadly campus threats.

Parkland gun control activist David Hogg suggests Broward County deputy Scot Peterson’s decision to stay out of building 12 while the attack occurred shows that teachers cannot be expected to protect kids.

Kansas lawmakers are considering legislation that would hold schools liable for refusing to allow teachers to be armed for defense of themselves and their students.

One Texas superintendent of schools says that, lately, he has been inundated with phone calls from people “probably in every state” asking about the campus safety program he pioneered over a decade ago — the Guardian plan.

North Carolina’s Henderson County is hiring armed security for each of its public schools as a way of preventing an attack like the one at Florida’s Parkland high school.

A proposed City of Richmond School Safety resolution asked Congress to extend gun-free zones while demanding that teachers be left unarmed. 

While speaking to the Global Education and Skills Forum in Dubai actress Charlize Theron made clear her belief that it is “outrageous” to even discuss allowing armed teachers to defend students.

During the March 15 airing of Breitbart News Daily, Gun Owners of America’s Erich Pratt stressed that students need more protection than that which comes from a “No Guns Allowed” sign.

The White House put out a release reflecting President Trump’s desire that our schools should be as safe as our airports, stadiums, and government buildings.

Florida’s House Democratic Caucus voted unanimously Tuesday to ensure that teachers cannot shoot back if under attack.

New Mexico teachers are training to take on active shooters with their bare hands, high-tech pepper spray, and strobe lights. The teachers say they want to make themselves safe in an active shooter situation following the attack in Parkland, Florida.

The Florida Senate rejected “assault weapons” ban legislation on Saturday and voted in support of training and arming teachers for school safety.

Illinois’ Century School District is moving to arm teachers as a way to ensure “kids are safe” from an attack like the one witnessed in Florida on February 14.

A Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School teacher told CNN that students of color could be shot at by teachers at a higher rate than whites if educators across the country are allowed to get armed.

South Carolina State Rep. Steven Long (R-37) says armed teachers could stop “mentally defective cowards” before school children are harmed.

Republican state legislators in Florida are proposing a statewide marshal program to train and arm school personnel to defend students and staffers, said Florida House Speaker Richard Corcoran in a Monday interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight with co-hosts Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollak.

On February 26, MSNBC Terror Analyst Malcolm Nance suggested that teachers are not ready to carry guns and that they would most likely be shot as police entered a building in the case of an attack.

President Trump used a Saturday morning tweet to emphasize his conviction that school shootings will end if we train and arm school teachers and staff.

School districts that already have armed teachers stand out as an example for what schools with “gun-free” designations can do to ensure student safety.