{"id":37510,"date":"2020-02-22T08:33:53","date_gmt":"2020-02-22T14:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=37510"},"modified":"2020-02-22T08:33:53","modified_gmt":"2020-02-22T14:33:53","slug":"37510","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=37510","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.courier-journal.com\/story\/news\/politics\/ky-legislature\/2020\/02\/21\/andy-beshear-signs-kentucky-bill-arming-school-resource-officers\/4799288002\/\">Gov. Andy Beshear signs bill requiring school resource officers to carry guns<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"speakable-p-1 p-text\">Despite calls from civil rights groups to veto the legislation, Gov. Andy Beshear on Friday signed a bill requiring school police to carry guns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable-p-2 p-text\">All Kentucky schools are now required to have at least one armed police officer under state law, effective immediately.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">While understanding opposition to the measure, Beshear said at a press conference Friday he could not allow officers to not have the weapons they may need in confronting a school shooting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">\u201cI simply cannot ask a school resource officer to stop an armed gunman entering a school without them having the ability to not only achieve this mission, but also to protect themselves,\u201d Beshear said. \u201cWe must be able to stop the worst of the worst.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">Signing Senate Bill 8 is best for the state as a whole, he continued.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">Moving forward, Beshear said his administration will work on training officers\u00a0to &#8220;start addressing the reason some kids might not feel safe because of a police officer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">Beshear&#8217;s decision comes after\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.courier-journal.com\/story\/news\/politics\/ky-legislature\/2020\/02\/07\/kentucky-bill-arming-school-heads-beshear\/4683637002\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-track-label=\"inline|intext|n\/a\">the bill passed the Senate and\u00a0House<\/a>\u00a0with large bipartisan margins, making a veto almost guaranteed to be overridden.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Andy Beshear signs bill requiring school resource officers to carry guns Despite calls from civil rights groups to veto the legislation, Gov. Andy Beshear on Friday signed a bill requiring school police to carry guns. All Kentucky schools are now required to have at least one armed police officer under state law, effective immediately. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=37510\" 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":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,13,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-schools","category-law-order","category-safety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37510","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=37510"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37520,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37510\/revisions\/37520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}