{"id":111723,"date":"2025-08-20T19:56:30","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T00:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=111723"},"modified":"2025-08-20T19:56:30","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T00:56:30","slug":"111723","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=111723","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/notthebee.com\/article\/this-ohio-school-district-is-allowing-staff-to-be-armed-in-case-of-active-shooter-situation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">92 Ohio school districts now allow staff to carry blasters<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ohio has been doing this since 2022, a year that saw 22 school districts arm their staffs after the passage of a new law allowing the practice. Fast-forward to 2025 and that number is 92.<\/p>\n<p>The main argument for arming these teachers is that in rural areas like Eastern Ohio where Benjamin Logan Local School District is located, it takes too long (about 10-15 minutes) for police to arrive during an active shooter situation. With armed staff, this isn&#8217;t as much of a problem.<\/p>\n<p>These armed staff members are required to take basic firearms training before they can carry in school.<\/p>\n<p>Believe it or not,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/map-states-schools-where-teachers-can-carry-guns-1894076\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">30 states<\/a>\u00a0allow school staff to carry firearms.<\/p>\n<p>From Newsweek:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"w-full block\">\n<div class=\"w-full text-center\">\n<div class=\"w-full\">\n<div class=\"w-full text-center relative\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"embedImage-0\" class=\"img img-embed mx-auto inline-block object-scale-down\" src=\"https:\/\/media.notthebee.com\/articles\/article-68a5e2f6a61f1.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"w-full block\">\n<div class=\"w-full text-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mx-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/media.notthebee.com\/articles\/article-68a5e743db973.gif\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here&#8217;s what the comments look like on Twitter when it comes to the above report on Benjamin Logan:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"w-full block\">\n<div class=\"w-full text-center\">\n<div class=\"w-full\">\n<div class=\"w-full text-center relative\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"embedImage-0\" class=\"img img-embed mx-auto inline-block object-scale-down\" src=\"https:\/\/media.notthebee.com\/articles\/article-68a5ed4744124.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"w-full\">\n<div class=\"flex justify-center\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>92 Ohio school districts now allow staff to carry blasters Ohio has been doing this since 2022, a year that saw 22 school districts arm their staffs after the passage of a new law allowing the practice. Fast-forward to 2025 and that number is 92. The main argument for arming these teachers is that in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=111723\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/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":[59,29,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-schools","category-safety","category-self-defense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111723","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=111723"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111724,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111723\/revisions\/111724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=111723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=111723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=111723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}