{"id":101567,"date":"2024-04-26T18:49:13","date_gmt":"2024-04-26T23:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=101567"},"modified":"2024-04-26T18:49:13","modified_gmt":"2024-04-26T23:49:13","slug":"101567","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=101567","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Tennessee governor plans to sign bill that would let teachers carry guns in schools<\/a>
\nLee alluded to the pushback from Democrats, saying, “There are folks across the state who disagree on the way forward.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee said Thursday that he planned to sign a bill state legislators\u00a0sent to his desk this week<\/a>\u00a0that would allow school staff members to carry concealed handguns on school grounds.<\/p>\n

“What\u2019s important to me is that we give districts tools and the option to use a tool that will keep their children safe in their schools,” Lee said at a news conference Thursday after he shared his plans to sign the legislation.<\/p>\n

Under state law, Lee, a Republican, has the option to sign the bill, veto it or allow it to become law without his signature.<\/p>\n

The Republican-controlled state House passed the measure Tuesday largely along party lines roughly a year after a\u00a0shooter opened fire and killed six people\u00a0<\/a>at The Covenant School in Nashville. The state Senate, which is also controlled by the GOP,\u00a0passed the measure<\/a>\u00a0this month.<\/p>\n

Lee on Thursday highlighted the legislation’s requirements that faculty and staff members wishing to carry concealed handguns on school grounds\u00a0<\/strong>complete a minimum of 40 hours of approved training specific to school policing every year. They also must obtain written authorization from law enforcement, he noted.<\/p>\n

“There are folks across the state who disagree on the way forward,” Lee said Thursday, adding that he thought the legislation would allow school districts the opportunity to decide “at the local level what is best for the schools and the children in that district.”<\/p>\n

But the measure drew criticism from Democrats like state Rep. Bo Mitchell, who referred to the Covenant shooting in remarks on the House floor.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is what we\u2019re going to do. This is our reaction to teachers and children being murdered in a school. Our reaction is to throw more guns at it. What\u2019s wrong with us?\u201d Mitchell said.<\/p>\n

Tennessee isn\u2019t the only state to have approved legislation allowing teachers to carry guns. At least 26 states have laws permitting teachers or other school employees to possess guns on school grounds, with some exceptions, according to the\u00a0Giffords Law Center<\/a>, a gun violence prevention group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tennessee governor plans to sign bill that would let teachers carry guns in schools Lee alluded to the pushback from Democrats, saying, “There are folks across the state who disagree on the way forward.\u201d Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee said Thursday that he planned to sign a bill state legislators\u00a0sent to his desk this week\u00a0that would … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,79,8,29,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-schools","category-government","category-rkba","category-safety","category-self-defense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=101567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101568,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101567\/revisions\/101568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=101567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=101567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=101567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}