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Colorado school staff to carry guns
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A RURAL Colorado school district has decided to allow its teachers and other school staff to carry guns on campus to protect students.
The Hanover School District 28 board on Wednesday night voted 3-2 to allow school employees to volunteer to be armed on the job after undergoing training.
The district’s two schools serve about 270 students about 30 miles southeast of Colorado Springs, and it takes law enforcement an average of 20 minutes to get there. The district currently shares an armed school resource officer with four other school districts.
Board member Michael Lawson backed the idea not only as way to protect students from a mass shooting, but also as protection against possible violence connected with nearby marijuana crops, which he believes are connected with foreign cartels, the Gazette of Colorado Springs reported.
School board President Mark McPherson said a survey showed the community was split on the issue.
While staffers would get some training, the retired Army officer said he didn’t think it would be enough to help them respond effectively to an active shooter.
“Our rooms are supposed to be locked and secure. We have cameras. We have a very vigilant staff,” he said.
“We are authorizing teachers to pull a weapon and kill a human being, and I cannot support that.”
He said he is only aware of one marijuana growing operation within about 8 kilometers of the schools, and he thinks comments about cartel involvement in the area are just rumors.
Some other school districts in Colorado as well as in Texas, Oklahoma and California have also backed allowing teachers to carry weapons.
An undisclosed number of teachers and other employees at a one-school district in Colorado’s sparsely populated Eastern Plains are being trained after the school board approved the move in July largely out of concern for how long it would take law enforcement to respond.
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