Parkland Shooting Investigators Suggest Arming Teachers
Dec 19, 2018
By: Teresa Mull
A team investigating the Parkland, Florida school shooting is recommending teachers carry guns.
FoxNews.com reports:
The Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Commission voted 13-1 to recommend the Legislature allow the arming of teachers, saying it's not enough to have one or two police officers or armed guards on campus. Florida law adopted after the Feb. 14 shooting that left 17 dead allows districts to arm non-teaching staff members such as principals, librarians and custodians — 13 of the 67 districts do, mostly in rural parts of the state.
Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri, the commission’s chairman, pushed the measure at the Tallahassee meeting. He said most deaths in school shootings happen within the first few minutes, before officers on and off campus can respond. He said suspect Nikolas Cruz stopped to reload his AR-15 semi-automatic rifle five times, all of which would have been opportunities for an armed teacher to shoot him.
“We have to give people a fighting chance, we have to give them an opportunity to protect themselves,” Gualtieri said. “One good guy with a gun on campus is not enough.”
“The 15-member commission, which has been meeting periodically since April, will present a report to Gov. Rick Scott, incoming Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Legislature by Jan. 1,” Fox reports.
Stopping School Shooters
Gunpowder Magazine reported earlier this year of several instances in which armed heroes prevented carnage from happening at schools. GPM’s Robert Davis reported in May 2018:
Poster Comment:
Only a good guy with a gun can stop a bad guy with a gun.