Rep Jason Villalba to file bill allowing armed teachers

[oldtexan]

http://www.wfaa.com/news/local/Villalba ... 67301.html

[MeMelYup]

They should allow as many of the teachers and admin to participate as want to, after a sych exam, not limit it to 1 per 400 students as stated.

[Ericstac]

Is that one chl teacher per 400 students a required minimum or the max allowed? That is not nearly enough.

[RPB]

Greg Abbott ‏@GregAbbott_TX

Do you favor law by Jason Villalba that Allows Teachers to Carry Concealed Guns?
http://permianbasin360.com/fulltext/?nxd_id=239062

[powerboatr]

teachers need to teach, they have way to much to take care to be armed protectors
two plain clothes armed agents per 300 kids should be affordable.
we could have em armed as backup
imo

[RoyGBiv]

http://www.wfaa.com/news/local/Villalba-Allow-Teachers-to-Carry-Concealed-Guns--183967301.html

Sanity.

[RHenriksen]

Great news. But why 1:400?

[anygunanywhere]

teachers need to teach, they have way to much to take care to be armed protectors
two plain clothes armed agents per 300 kids should be affordable.
we could have em armed as backup
imo

You are kidding, right?

Do you carry? Do you use the same reasoning for yourself? If you ever considered using your firearm in defense of others then your statements are hypocritical.

Anygunanywhere

[oldtexan]

Great news. But why 1:400?

I don't know how the 400 figure was chosen.

[oldtexan]

teachers need to teach, they have way to much to take care to be armed protectors
two plain clothes armed agents per 300 kids should be affordable.
we could have em armed as backup
imo

According to the Texas Education Agency there were over 4.9 million students in Texas public schools in 2010-2011. That's probably at about 5 million now. Two agents per 300 students would yield about 33,300 agents. Who pays their salaries, medical care, pensions? Then we'd have to have people to recruit, train, certify and supervise those 33K, maybe another few thousand. Then we'd have to equip all those agents with weapons, communication systems, etc, etc, and maintain said equipment. In a time of significant pressure to cut government spending, who's going to foot the bill?

[RHenriksen]

teachers need to teach, they have way to much to take care to be armed protectors
two plain clothes armed agents per 300 kids should be affordable.
we could have em armed as backup
imo

According to the Texas Education Agency there were over 4.9 million students in Texas public schools in 2010-2011. That's probably at about 5 million now. Two agents per 300 students would yield about 33,300 agents. Who pays their salaries, medical care, pensions? Then we'd have to have people to recruit, train, certify and supervise those 33K, maybe another few thousand. Then we'd have to equip all those agents with weapons, communication systems, etc, etc, and maintain said equipment. In a time of significant pressure to cut government spending, who's going to foot the bill?

Not to mention that we all have regular day jobs. By powerbtr's logic, all of us should hand in our CHLs and turn over our pistols to police buy-back programs, as none of us have time to protect ourselves and our families.

[RPB]

viewtopic.php?f=94&t=60380&p=742332#p742332

Police chief agrees

St. Louis Police Chief: We Arm Pilots, Why Not Teachers?

Just cross-linking for ease of finding in 2013 Leg session if someone needs it (like when Charles quickly needed to find a post about USACE property once)

[KC5AV]

http://www.wfaa.com/news/local/Villalba-Allow-Teachers-to-Carry-Concealed-Guns--183967301.html

Look closely. There is now a survey on the page asking

Do you think America needs to reinstate the Assault Weapons Ban that expired in 2004 as some lawmakers are suggesting?

[RPB]

http://www.wfaa.com/news/local/Villalba-Allow-Teachers-to-Carry-Concealed-Guns--183967301.html

Look closely. There is now a survey on the page asking

Do you think America needs to reinstate the Assault Weapons Ban that expired in 2004 as some lawmakers are suggesting?

Poll on mine
http://www.wfaa.com/news/local/Villalba ... 67301.html

Would you approve of teachers being armed at your child's school?

Yes
57% 315
No
43% 241
Total Votes: 556

[KC5AV]

I see what happened... I hit the link in the 4th post... from RPB. The permianbasin360.com page has the AWB poll.