
School District Approves Armed Teachers, Provides the Handguns
On December 16, school board members in Keene, Texas, voted not simply to allow armed teachers, but also to provide the handguns teachers will carry.

On December 16, school board members in Keene, Texas, voted not simply to allow armed teachers, but also to provide the handguns teachers will carry.

In response to parents’ concern over the safety of their children at least 40 Ohio school districts now allow teachers to have a gun in the classroom to use in defense of themselves and their students.

A father is outraged after learning that an “active shooter protocol” at his children’s school, Stevenson Elementary in Heath, Ohio, includes encouraging his eight-year-old son to throw books at the gunman.

When Vince Vaughn told British GQ that he supported guns in schools so those guns could be used to defend children, he said something that is supported by a majority of Americans.

On May 12, Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin (R) signed House Bill 2014, legalizing armed teachers and staff on Oklahoma public school campuses.

Following the Taliban’s mid-December attack on a school in Peshawar, Pakistan, teachers are receiving guns and training to use them as part of a bid to beef up security.