Tennessee lawmakers approve bill that would allow teachers to carry guns in school
Tennessee's governor was expected to sign the bill, which comes a year after a gunman shot and killed six people at a school in Nashville. The vote was followed by protests by opponents at the state capitol. NBC News' Priya Sridhar reports.
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#Tennessee #Teachers #Guns
homeschooling if you dont want a teacher with that
You need schooling of you think this odd a good idea.
Yep, you don’t want your children to have life saving protection at school, then home school your kids.
@@jesse_- to think that arming teachers is helping to protect kids is absurd. When you consider actual real solutions for addressing gun violence, arming teachers is pretty stupid.
@@CattleDog2856 If you was not blinded by ignorance you would see this in fact goes a long way to make it safer for the students! Got news for you, they claim they have been addressing gun violence now for the last 50+ years and guess what, its not working, never has worked and never will work! Until the day comes that a criminal starts abiding by the law, there is NO law that is going to prevent gun violence and if you think that day will ever come, or that we can somehow magically make all the guns in the world just go away, you are far to ignorant to even be talking about it!
@CattleDog2856 really? Okay name 1 solution?
Finally !!! we are going to protect our kids !!!!!
To protect kids is not giving people in school to wear guns! Hello!!! Only way is to ban guns everywhere.
@@user-cb1xz4pn9o94-97% of mass s____ings occur in gun free zones you reStart.
Horrible. VOTE BLUE
@@romaniangod5649 Maui got the Blue they voted for.
All the wasted time and effort put in buy Wyatt and the Earp family for nothing.
Mind blowing these parents and teachers dont want to protect their kids. Ignorance is no excuse!
What’s ignorant is thinking a teacher with a handgun is going to be able to protect their students from a gunman with an AK-47 and tactical body armor.
@@binaryvoid0101, an even scary scenario would be an armed teacher who snaps from some personal or mental issues and unloads on a classroom full of kids. Now a potential school shooter has access to guns, teachers have access to guns and the only people without guns are - you guessed it - students! New legislation would predictably be about extending that opportunity to students and hopefully nothing goes wrong with that.
@@binaryvoid0101 It's better than waiting 10 or 15 mintues for men and women with guns to come amd protect the kids. You have 1 if not 2 gunman against 5 maybe even 10 teachers and staff members with guns.
MOMS DEMAND 2-A GUN RIGHTS !
The same hillbilly moms who threw a fit over drunk driving laws because it infringed on their right to drink a beer and drive a car?
A team of 400 Uvalde police officers couldn’t stop a teenage gunman from murdering 19 children yet you think a bunch of Karens with handguns are going do a better job.
As much as I personally disagree with the second amendment, this is understandable. Frustrating that THIS is the “solution” to gun violence, but I get it and I think it has its place. This legislation is not enough though. We need to cooperate on laws that keep guns out of questionable hands to begin with! Bipartisan backed red flag laws, universal background checks, etc.
Red flag laws are unconstitutional. Universal background checks are just a way for the government to take your guns later.
If you think this is ok, you definitely don’t “get it.”
@@CattleDog2856👍👍
Red flag laws are wildly unconstitutional. Universal background checks would only be possible to implement if there was a national registry of all firearms. Federal law prohibits a national registry.
The most reasonable comment I have seen from this comment section 💀 we are just adding more guns to the problem
Yall ain’t safe with your teachers or what??? How sensitive can people be?
Look at what they have been doing to kids over the years
Wisconsin teacher was just arrested for molesting a 11yr old. So you tell me!
Thinking a teacher with a handgun is going to protect your kids from a gunman with an AK-47 and tactical body armor is magical thinking.
@@binaryvoid0101 Remarkable how a hand full of people will argue to no end, about how they believe this is a good idea!
Tighten up the doorways and exits, I would be afraid to be a student in thise classes.accidents will definitely happen
Great …next thing you know the Terminator will be coming in as your substitute teacher
It's not a tumor!
Way to go Tennessee, anyone against this is stupid. Teachers need to be able to carry. We'd have less school shootings
You’re the one who’s stoopid
You're not very smart. This was a stupid, stupid move. I hope these teachers NEVER have a bad day.
@@SoupBone-bp1qkThey never will now.
@@gordo1522I support trump and guns I don't support trying to take them away from people democrats aren't focused on anything look what there doing to NYC I think red states there doing good
@@SoupBone-bp1qk TN is the 20th state to allow CC by teachers. Nothing like what you suggest has ever happened in the other 19 states.
Now Tennessee parents and school admins would have to think twice before mistreating people who carry guns near their children.
In Loco parentis, there's no mention of giving a teacher a weapon inorder to protect children
Its voluntary and there are strict requirements for a teacher as well. He or she will need multiple permissions and will requirement a conceal carry permit and go through training. Atleast Im seeing some solution being done. Same time democrats will complain if u install police or metal detectors so they cant be pleased.
First of all Republicans are the one's that are against metal detectors. Did you forget they removed them from the Capital building! Now give guns to teachers who BTW. some are child predators. Great.
Proposals were made for funding to hire more police officers and assign them to schools, and improve the physical security of school buildings, were made during last summer's special session of the Tennessee legislature. The same people that were shouting against this bill, were ranting last summer that the legislature was trying to turn schools into prisons. The number of hours of training that is specified in this bill, is actually higher than the number of hours for the training offered by the state police academy for SWAT officer certification.
ONLY IS America! Solution is always more guns. This is truly insane
Why is their strict requirements for teachers and no one else?
@@btcr5 Can't wait to here the answer for your question! Good one!
What about students?! I’m an architect student that clocks out at 2am I need to defend myself on the walk to my car
Exactly how you dissuade potential bad guys. Thank you for leading the way, Tennessee!
Oh yea? You really think bad guys care about death? Especially school shooters?! You don’t know bad guys at all…
American has more guns (by far) than any country on planet earth, yet it also has the highest number of gun related deaths (excluding countries at war). So it doesn't really seem as though giving "good guys" with guns is actually dissuading any shooters.
You clearly don’t know bad guy…
@@footballnerd277 suicides and gang violence dramatically skew those stats. Guns save orders of magnitude more lives than they take.
@footballnerd277 It also has the lowest guns to gun crime ratio. The overwhelming majority of guns or gun owners are never used in crimes. It's not even half of half of 1%. Considering also the overwhelming majority of actual gun crime is gang related Street violence in inner cities that typically have strict gun laws to begin with. Also the other majority is suicides which is a whole different topic and issue that needs to be addressed.
What could possibly go wrong?
We’ve had this provision in my state for years, and it’s just fine. Dear Lord, people, take a deep breath and calm down.
Which State?
This is truly insane
What, that it took this long? We listened to the gun grabbers say no to this for years, and school shootings only got much worse, because the killers knew no one was armed. Now let’s see if this makes a positive difference, and if so, make it a law across the nation. As a society, we need to try different things to see what works the best.
Ikr!? It's insane they didn't do this earlier
its been happening for decades. zero incidents. you are insane
Other states have this and it’s not an issue. Is there something wrong with the school teachers in Tennessee compared to the other states that allow teachers to carry?
32 states have this. Late to the party much. Nothing they say will happen has happened. I like how all of the sudden teacher are unstable and are 1 day away from snapping. If it's that bad, why are they teaching then.
Good.
They couldn’t pay me enough to carry a gun to class.
Pass Out the Pistols!...The Kids are Crazy!!!😂😂😂😂
What happens when a child innocently gets shot by a teacher? How do they handle it? This is the craziest crap I have ever heard of in my life time. How come law makers aren’t being first responders at shootings? Then they would find out bullets can harm you? They make it sound so easy. Ridiculous!!!
Imagine George Santos, responding to a call of shots fired, or Mike Johnson.lol 😂.
Only dummies disagree with the bill.
You don't get out much do you!
@@Acdc5 I get out every day and understand real world issues. purple hair sexually confused people (you) need to leave kids alone.
@@Outrunninaround. no school will arm their teachers. No insurance company will keep a contract with a school arming their teachers. Only dummies think this bill is going to do anything.
"Protect kids not guns" ✖ Protect kids WITH guns ✔
Ban all guns everywhere. A teacher is educated to educate, it is not police officer. Be realistic.
@@user-cb1xz4pn9o Why the abhorrence towards owning firearms? Why shouldn't teachers also have the right to be armed aswell as police officers? We all know how the police handled that one school in Texas. The more responsible, armed adults, watching over our children the better.
@@user-cb1xz4pn9oGreat idea! All the criminals will give theirs up because of a ban and we'll all live happily ever after. Fairytales always have happy endings. 🙂 Unfortunately this is real life. I choose to be able to fight back.
@@user-cb1xz4pn9o What a stupid thing to say
@@user-cb1xz4pn9o would you pick up a gun to save a kid? probably not
Awesome
Terrible
@@Vigil00how so?
@@Supersauce88 It’s because of red America that teachers are expected to risk their lives.
@@Vigil00explain how? You won’t, but you’re given the opportunity to state your case.
@@Supersauce88 It shouldn’t of come to teachers “needing” to take up another gun to solve a problem caused by guns
@say10:From, whom? Themselves Teachers Schl admins Other students
Great news for teachers they deserve protection and respect. I hope now that teachers can carry guns students will learn better.
This country has lost it's mind.
Thank Biden
@@PartTimeJedi It's the uneducated MAGAts, not Biden
@@PartTimeJedi Thank you Mr. Biden for having some sensibility. Unlike Republicans, who have taken this country back to the 1800s.
Excellent work👊
Wrong work.
You must live in a cave in China. Insurance Companies will not insure any schools were employees are allowed to carry guns. This has been going on for 7yrs now!
lets see wich student is going to be an e diot now 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
oddly enough this works as a backdoor/work-around to their antiabortion bill,somehow...
students mad now because they cant abuse teachers 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I’m sure you’re not insensitive enough to make jokes about teachers shooting students; which is now possible in TN.
@@CJ_Walks students walk the line 😉
@@CJ_Walks let them be funny now
@@CJ_Walks that bad are the students?🤣🤣🤣🤣
I was under the impression that all Americans were smart people. For the past 7yrs, insurance companies will not insure any school districts that allows it's employees to carry weapons.
What are you people thinking!? If ever there was a time to STAY WOKE…..IT’S NOW! TEACHERS NEED TO BE “LOADING UP” ON BOOKS…….NOT BULLETS! 🙄 Our students have a QUEST for knowledge! Teachers need to TEACH! 🤷♀️
Teachers need to be able to help keep your kids alive until first responders eventually arrive.
@@EngineersQuestfor knowledge! Teachers MUST teach! 🤷♀️
@@brittneyk0158 Absolutely. I agree. They will do just that until an emergency happens. Do you agree that teachers should be able to perform CPR or administer first aid in case a child needs it?
@@EngineersQuest I believe the children are our future TEACH them well and let them lead the way Show them all the beauty they possess inside Give them a sense of pride to make it easier Let the children's laughter remind us how we used to beeeeee…..😊
@brittneyk0158 I agree, teachers need to teach. So it's only logical to teach teachers how to properly and safely use a gun to protect the kids. Then teach the kids how to use them so they can grow up with the knowledge of how to defend themselves.
Wait, wait, teachers can ONLY carry guns if they get a permit, pass a mental health eval, and a bunch of other stuff? Why not make that mandatory for ALL gun buyers? Isn't it strange that the SAME people who like Teachers to have GUNS, do not trust them to decide which BOOKS to use in their classrooms?
It's funny, but Republicans aren't intelligent enough to follow your logic here. They admitted it, finally, and they don't even realize it.
Because nearly all gun buyers aren't in the position of responsibility that should require such checks. People that are scared of their teacher now that they have a Gun are weird.
The question is how do the teachers feel about this? What if a teacher refuses to carry a gun? Will this be a requirement for hiring teachers?
More importantly, how do potential shooters feel about this. They usually want easy pickings, so will they just skip the schools and hit up other gun free zones?
This doesn't require Teachers to have a Gun, this allows them to go through proper procedures to be safely armed in the Classroom. They have to apply for it.
America!
America a supposedly developed Christian Nation. What message does this send to the world?
America has religious freedom what are you yapping about
America is a national of all religions, and all of those people have the God given right to defend themselves. That’s the message, and shooters are much less likely to enter an area where people are armed. If anything, this is a deterrent, and it’s been legal in other states.
@@jesse_-How is it that America a supposedly developed Christian nation has this problem and other developed nations don’t.
This is one of the most American Bills to be passed. The rest of the world would probably be surprised given our Gun culture that we have'nt done this already.
Here’s a better idea, why not pass strict and harsh gun city totk that way we don’t need guns in an elementary school. Much safer solution then adding more guns to the problem
This country is moving backwards instead of forward.
@Drax_Corrandd Some people wonder why Great Britain doesn't have any mass shootings and the US has hundreds. Thank you for representing gun advocates.
People like you are always crying about protecting children but hate when solutions are implemented. You don’t care about children. You just want to ban guns.
Gun laws don't work to stop crime because people who are looking to commit harm to other don't care about the law teachers having guns is a common sense way of protecting against school shootings
Nah, it's much safer to let a trained teacher carry
The law WORKS, if you use COMMON SENSE. Some are just missing the mark with this.
Common sense is when you know that guns can't be near kids, can't be in schools, can't be owned by people who are educated to educate, not to shoot.
So your saying that the people of Great Britain, don't have common sense. They have zero mass shootings, because of gun laws.
Let's ask Wyatt Earp how many gun carrying citizens had common sense?
@@Acdc5lets ask how many antigunners and their companies and organizations lack common sense
We don't have school shootings in my country! WHY? Because everybody doesn't own a firearm...!!
People in the United States don't get it. Legislators are are making money by keeping guns on the market. They are the share holders in gun and ammunition companies. The other factor is that America, was built on discrimination and prejudice and owning guns is their only means of protection from the people that America has oppressed. I'm sorry but the truth hurts.
And you thought Americans were smart!
@@Acdc5 Never thought that...
@@KRAEMERP2010 So never thought Americans were smart . 😂
Different culture. If you get a rogue government, how would your people stop them? If someone breaks into your home in the middle of the night with a knife or illegal firearm, how would you stop them.
Tennessee lawmakers approved a bill that would permit teachers to carry guns in schools. The bill, known as HB 1380/SB 0786, passed the state House with a vote of 82-15 and the Senate with a vote of 27-6. If signed into law, it would allow certain school employees to carry concealed firearms on school grounds. The bill aims to enhance school safety and protect students by allowing trained staff members to respond to potential threats. Under the proposed legislation, teachers and other school personnel who choose to carry firearms would have to complete a 40-hour training course provided by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation and the Tennessee Peace Officers Standards and Training Commission. Supporters of the bill argue that it would provide an additional layer of security and reduce response time in case of an active shooter situation. They believe that armed teachers could act as a deterrent to potential attackers and potentially save lives. Moreover, proponents emphasize that the decision to carry a firearm would be voluntary for teachers, and local school districts would have the final say in implementing the policy. However, opponents of the bill express concerns regarding the potential risks associated with arming teachers. They argue that introducing more guns into schools may increase the likelihood of accidents, unintentional shootings, or escalation of violence. Critics also question the effectiveness of arming teachers in preventing school shootings, citing research that suggests other approaches like improved mental health services or stricter gun control laws would be more effective in ensuring school safety. The bill will now be sent to Tennessee Governor Bill Lee for consideration. If he signs it into law, Tennessee will join a handful of other states that allow teachers to carry firearms on school grounds.
So now 'teachers are responsible' for protecting their students... for 'the same salary'.
The bill does not require teachers to carry a gun. The bill sponsor explained that he expected no more than about 3 percent of teachers to apply for authorization to carry a gun under this bill, and that the number of teachers who complete the screening and training to be considerably less than that. If a teacher volunteers for this program and completes the screening and training - at their own expense - they will assume personal liability for everything they do with the gun. This is why the expected number of teachers to apply for the program is so low. The bill requires strict control of who knows which teachers are armed, so that a potential school shooter can be deterred by not being able to plan for which teacher will be an armed threat to the school shooter.
Not responsible to protect. Just able to protect.
The insanity is beyond comprehension for us in the civilized world!
Metal detectors don't work (i knew kids who would sneak knives, lighters, ecigs. Kids are clever sometimes), 1 entrance is a fire hazard besides students are mostly told stay indoors till law enforcement can determine how many shooters because their could be someone waiting outdoors to shoot them (thats atleast what they told our district to do if such event were to happen)
What exactly makes you civilized?
@@riclate2013 The FACT we don’t have school shootings and only one mass shooting since World War Two. While the USA has 80 percent of school shootings worldwide, and also has the most mass shootings with 630 in 2023. So basically 2 a day. Plus our roads are much safer, we have proper healthcare for EVERYONE, infant mortality rate is much lower, we have a lot less obesity especially with children, our kids are among the happiest in the world and I can go on like this much longer. In the USA the number one reason for child and teenage mortality is gun related, second traffic related and third cancer. Here cancer is the number one reason and that is even lower than in the USA. The fact we care about our children is what makes us civilized, while the USA clearly doesn’t care at all about them.
@@sanderdeboer6034I personally don't think were not any less civilized than the rest of the world (god knows other countries have some strange ways of thinking too especially how north and south Europe and the middle east treat each other saying their the civilized ones) I just think were a little confused as a nation right now with our own communities and the duties we have to uphold.
@@user-go8vi5lb6u again the students don't know if there is someone waiting for them if they leave the building if you think for a second 🙄
This is dumb. Talk about throwing gas on a fire.
Doubt it lol
You only think it’s dumb, due to your lack of understanding. That’s usually how it goes. Mass shooters typically don’t want a challenge while they are trying to rack up a body count, so this is a deterrent. Law makers in TN know their folks the best, and this overwhelming passed. Eventually you are only going to see school shootings in states without these new laws.
Many counties won’t allow it. I’d imagine most teachers won’t carry even if allowed.
Other options to consider: *Better security and security cams *Non-lethal weapons *Better Homeschooling *Better Tutoring *Consider separating the boys and girls even as early as 1st grade *Better Civic Awareness Programs *Better Apprenticeship Programs *A Safe room for locking up Unruly students *Metal Detectors
Hilarious. Great work here, Colombo!
Last summer, the Tennessee legislature was considering funding for security improvements to the schools, but the same people that were shouting that the state legislature has blood on their hands for passing this bill, were shouting last summer that the legislature was trying to turn schools into prisons. They have also opposed home schooling, non-lethal weapons, locking up "unruly students", various civic programs, and a long list of other 'solutions'. Honestly, by this point we would be happy if those people would just move to another state, but some of them don't even live here. Last summer, a few of them got angry enough at the state legislature that they forgot that they were pretending to live here and started shouting that they were glad they didn't live in this state. The state legislature already knew this, because some members of the legislature stated before the summer session started that since other states were not having a summer session of their legislatures, our summer session was just going to turn into a circus of news media and people from other states protesting in an attempt to draw the news media's attention.
@@paulstevens7528 It is also about everyone's home life, their usual diet, and other daily habits. At this time in my life I believe that I should strive to be fully dedicated to God before I die. Helping people on the material or earthly plane is not my department. I just notice things that might be worth pointing out. I tried out substitute teaching many years ago. I was not sure what to think about my experience with that. But I got the impression that many students could use tutoring and i have mentioned other things here. Having thought about this many times I would recommend attempting to have meaningful talks with the students. I would inform them that I am not here to be their enemy. I would prefer if they all did well and successful in life. I am not your regular teacher. I probably did not have some of the advantages and opportunities you students have today. I am primarily here to help you with your regular studies and otherwise keep watch over things.
Troubled teenagers will like this, now the videogame is complete, teachers will shoot back, just like in their game, and they will have an atvantage.
This is perfectly logical - Americans don't have access to contraceptives, so leave birth control to the teenage gunmen.
Holy hyperbole Batman
Ignorance is bliss and you are the happiest mfker I've ever seen
What sense does this make
This is so asinine. You’re telling me we can’t seem to get teachers basic school supplies but suddenly we can manage the logistics of getting them GUNS? The only teachers that would want/be willing to go through the process of getting the gun in the first place are probably the same teachers you don’t want having said guns.
Not every gunowner is crazy you are blind
The Schools aren't handing out Guns to teachers so your school supply point has nothing to do with this. The Bill allows Teachers to be armed with their own Gun if they go through the proper procedures.
Guns at school. Better safety😮? Omg, You're just not on track. Bunch of cowboys but this is known worldwide. There are better safety measures. Take example from European standards. We may be smaller in country. But in terms of wisdom, Europe has been far ahead for years.
LOL, Europe, ahead on wisdom? It is wise to protect citizens' right to self defense, not to squander it. Yes, having rights is messy, but it is far wiser in the long term.
I live in european country where is not alowed to have weapon. We don't have mass shootings. Nowhere.
@@user-cb1xz4pn9o I'll take messy freedom over clean tyranny any day.
The same people that were protesting against this bill at the state legislature, were protesting last summer when the state legislature was considering funding for school security cameras, improved doors at the entrance, and various other ways to improve the physical security of school buildings. Their chant last summer was that the legislature was trying to turn schools into prisons. China doesn't allow ownership of guns, but they have had a large enough number of attacks on schools with knives and other weapons, that some Chinese schools have made videos to show parents the training that their teachers and staff have been given to respond to an attacker with a knife, so simply banning guns is not a solution, even if it was possible to ban and confiscate all the guns in the US - it is logistically impossible to confiscate all of the guns, due to the large number of guns in the US, among other reasons.
@@meanderinorangesMany opinions are divided on this. And I haven't even mentioned vandalism and crime in the country. And now you also want to allow weapons in schools? Some people in the states honestly have a serious problem in their heads. Worse, they're like cults. Large crowds of people willing to agree to this. You guys have honestly gone off the rails. Let me guess, a non-democratic population? So sad about all this...
Tennessee, where decency goes to die.
This will not end well!
It'll end with potential bad guys deciding to go elsewhere to commit their crimes.
@@meanderinorangesAre their not police in the building already?
@@davyjones7177 no. If there's anyone at all, they're unarmed security. They're called gun-free school zones for a reason.
@@meanderinorangesI guess I take the school district I work at for granted since all 13 of our schools have their own officers. Maybe that’s a better solution lol
@@meanderinorangesPolice officers are excluded from gun free zones I’m not sure what your saying?
We're going back to the cowboy days
The World will never look at America the same ever again.
Tennessee is far from the first state to do this.
@@paulstevens7528that doesn’t mean it’s good
@@DavidCB420 But it does mean that anyone pointing to this bill being passed as their reason for viewing the US the way they do, is ignoring the fact that somewhere in the neighborhood of half the states in the US have some form of law allowing teachers or staff at schools to be armed. I saw a report the other day that stated only 16 of the 50 states have laws completely prohibiting teachers from being armed. The main thing preventing the arming of teachers in states other than those 16 states, is that a federal law passed in the 1990s requires that a state pass a law authorizing teachers to be armed, before teachers can be armed in schools. Prior to that federal law being passed, it was mainly up to the local governments to decide whether or not teachers could have guns at school. In the 1980s, high schools in Tennessee allowed students to have guns in their vehicles in the student parking lots, because it was accepted that some students would be hunting before or after school. This controversy wasn't a controversy, here, until the federal government started placing restrictions on guns at schools.
@@paulstevens7528 The funny thing is that this bill forces Republicans to admit that firearm ownership should require training and background checks and stricter regulations in general. It's too bad Republicans aren't smart enough to realize it.
Teacher going crazy because children are not behaving........ 20 children shot dead. Do they really want this??????????????????
TN is the 20th state to allow this. What you're suggesting should already be happening in the other states. But it's not. CC holders obey the law better than cops do.
How many teachers have committed mass shootings? We have a problem with the children and their parents
@@christopherwebber1104 Really, do you realize that the Unabomber was a college professor. You need to research how many Teachers have committed murder.
@@Acdc5 Compared to how many students have?
@@Acdc5 I just did a few searches and cant find one instance of a teacher committing a mass shooting on students
If trained cops was hiding behind walls in Ulvade because the were scared of bullets and the had body armor. If a teacher should engage in gun man! How many hours in weapons combat should teacher get? Now will the gunman go direct after the teacher instead.
The difference is that the teachers will be fight for their lives and the lives of their students against the gunman if anything ulvade is a reason more to support this. Remember the cops put themselves in that situation and could have easily left if theg wanted. Theres a huge difference between running into danger and fighting for your life. When your cornered with nothing or no place to go your going to fight hard to not die.
@@riclate2013 You guys got every scenario figured out. What if a White guy goes to a all Black church and pretends to participate in Bible study, but shoots everyone at the Bible study. Should we make sure that teachers attend Bible study to protect everyone.
@@riclate2013 No. 1 Arming teachers is equivalent to putting a target on them. Perpetrators know that now the teachers will be armed, and they will shoot at the teachers first. No. 2 When shots are fired, can a teacher handle the situation? When bullets whiz around in the corridors and through the walls, can the teacher really do anything about it? No. 3 During Uvalde, the police had time to control their adrenaline and handle the situation. Yet, they still crawled to the floor and ran for cover when the bullets flew. No. 4 If a teacher spends a couple of hours a month at the shooting range and shoots to hit a target. Or walks through a house and clears it. It's not the same as when shots are fired and bullets whiz, whether one can handle the situation. So, what good does it do if the teacher has a weapon or not? No. 5 The best option is to prevent the weapon from entering the school altogether. No. 6 What role should the teacher have? Teacher or member of a SWAT team! No. 7 You have the highest number of guns per capita in the whole world. With this fact, you should have no crimes.
@@tj11r1. Criminals likes their victim defenseless so you want victim to die? 2. That's what training for 3.so we didn't need police? 4.huh? 5.criminals don't follow laws and they will get guns, that's why they're called criminals 6.just because someone has a gun doesn't mean they are a swat team 7.there is no country with no crimes.also gun is supposed to stop crimes not ensuring crimes to happen.
This is bad. Having guns in school. IN SCHOOL!!!
Sheep
Just takes one deranged student with nothing to live for to change everyone’s mind
As recently as the 1980s, high school students in Tennessee were allowed to have guns in their vehicles in the student parking lot. If the shop teacher gave them permission, they could bring the guns into the shop and work on them during class. In the 1980s, I spent my freshman year at a state university in Tennessee going to the on-campus gun range each week to take care of the freshman physical education requirement. That all ended when Congress passed the "gun-free school zones act". Have we had less school shootings since that federal law was passed, or more school shootings since that federal law was passed?
@@user-jq3wi2bs6z , teachers are not professionals trained for situations in which an ordinary citizen does not know and cannot cope or react. I live in a country where guns are banned. I work at school. We don't have mass killings of children. I don't have to carry a weapon. Sorry, the only sheep here are those who support guns. You have disgusting gun laws. The shame of civilized society.
@@paulstevens7528,weapons have no place in schools. you change federal laws to ban and make it harder to get a gun license. Arming people who are trained to educate, not to play police, is a completely wrong policy that only lunatics can accept.
New gun owners will never get a shot before the criminal will This is a horrible idea especially using a handgun against an AK 🤔 R U KIDDING ME! 😖 I see more accidental gun shot victims in schools future there than terrorists school shootings 😖 TENNESSEE THIS IS SO IRRESPONSIBLE OF YOU 😵💫
You don’t sound like you live in TN. You made a fantastic point, that in order for citizens to combat some with an AK, they need something equal. Maybe the federal government should stop states from banning “military grade looking firearms.” After all, we need to be able to protect ourselves. Thank you for being in favor of powerful rifles.
Think back to the teachers you had in high school. Were they trained to handle guns? Were they competent? I give it 5 minutes before one of these teachers leaves a gun in a draw somewhere and a kid finds it.
You didn't read even one word of this bill. You have no clue how rigorous the training requirements are.
That's what the 40+ hours of training will be for. If anything, schools will probably make the teachers check their weapons in and out with the resource officer. If there's a way to make this bureaucratic and frustrating, the schools will find one.
It's been passed 5 mins. Btw a few other states allow this. Yet nothing happened. This is the same argument that gun controllers make when constitutional carry (permitless carry) bills pass. They scream the world will end, yet 29 states have it, and if anything, crime either dropped a bit or stayed the same.
The bill requires the teacher to keep the gun concealed on their person. Leaving it in a drawer is not allowed under this bill and could result in serious consequences for the teacher. And off the top of my head, I can recall two of my teachers who were not only former military, but also combat veterans. I'd say they likely knew something about handling guns.
@@CountArtha must be kept on person. No silly and unsafe check-in. Read the bill.
BLOOD ON YOUR HANDS
Who’s hands?
How? Elaborate on your nonsense claim.
Republican insatiable love for guns got us to the top for gun deaths in the world, and this stupid logic is certainly not going to decrease our rank on that chart.
And you thought the the United States had a population of intelligent people, 😂.
Technically we are not on the top of the world
@@riclate2013 The US is number one among higher income countries with a population over 10 million people.
It's not the guns. It's criminals with illegal guns that's the problem.
Republicans are the only ones with guns? That’s news to me. You do realize that collectively, Armed citizens have cleaner criminals records than the police?
& if I was a student, I'll carry to protect myself
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Why do we need arm teachers when we have thousands of cops doing basically nothing? What happens when one of these teachers goes nuts and has a weapon at their disposal? Are we going to start arming toddlers?
When seconds count, a cop is only minutes away.
@@meanderinorangesOr in the case of Uvalde, 77 minutes away.
It's part of a bigger picture. They want to change the current school system into more of a boarding type school system. You send your kids off to these schools months at a time so they can be indoctrinated. The new maga America.
if you have to arm teachers you got a gun problem smh
A gun problem is someone trying to kil you while you are unarmed
@@stevena.7022 No, a gun problem is when the richest country on Earth experiences more school shootings per year than all other developed countries combined. Do you understand this?
Yes we do have a problem. It's not with guns though. It's with criminals having them. Laws won't prevent that. Citizens need to be able to defend themselves.
@@EngineersQuest No see the problem is people like you who deflect the problem is guns and will always be guns you can still defend yourself without large capacity weapons this will only get people hurt but hey the blood is on your hands so when it goes wrong and it will I hope you remember you deflected doing anything yeah sit there AND DO NOTHIHING blame other things you will never get anywhere or anything done in life why even comment if you comment is lets not do anything and be scared well sit and be scared the rest of us will work on real solutions
@@EngineersQuest unless you are defending against russia that is not a argument lol
Now Tennessee parents and school admins would have to think twice before mistreating people who carry guns near their children.
Do you think trained teachers who concealed carry are just going to start shooting parents and kids over words? Did you know that TN is only the 20th state to allow teachers to CC? Where's your epidemic of teachers shooting parents and kids?