The teachers who allow the law permission to take the hidden firearms will be prepared for one vote in the full House of the representatives, as the Nominated School Protection Officers.
Scott hekrt
“There is a soft goal everywhere where there is no one to protect the children,” said the representative Scott Hekrt, R-Wood, advocating the bill.
The bill advanced from the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday afternoon, where the room was packed with people wearing red moms demand action t -shirts, reflecting people advocating public safety measures to protect people from gun violence. They oppose the bill.
House Bill 4299 will apply to teachers, administrators, primary or secondary schools that volunteers are to be nominated as school resources officers. They will be authorized to carry hidden firearms or an unconscious gun or taser.
Any teacher seeking the designation will require to provide a valid hidden carry permit and proof of a certificate, which demonstrates the completion of a security protection officer training program. Training will include mitigation techniques, potential hazards ineffective and active shooters, de-eskalation technology, crisis intervention and more.
Laura Kimble
“What am I expecting that we will not have football players, with the Vim and Power, which they have, is planning how they are defending their classes if something happens in their school. We will not have 5 years old children, who ask their parents what I do?
“Our children need preserved.”
Joy Garcia
Delegate Joy Garcia, D-Maryan, argued against pursuing the bill, stating that the state law has already been opened to serve inside schools for trained personnel such as former law enforcement officers or pre-monk personnel.
He said, “The difference between what we have done with school resource officers, protection officers before – this is their job; it is their job. Protecting children is their full -time job,” he said.
“Teachers who need to keep guns under their control have many other things that are running during their day and do not have professional experience or training to prevent an accident of monumental ratio of being.”
One of the people watching inside the house judiciary room was a school nurse Sarah Gotlib for the last two decades. He is concerned about unexpected results like the possibility of a girl catching a gun from a teacher.
“Many of our students are long, they are strong and they can be quite emotional. Some are quite mature, some can be very emotional,” Gotlib said.
“So it concerns me that they get upset about something; they can surprise a teacher and give them relief from their guns. Then you have a terrible situation where you have an armed student who is upset and not thinking directly and not yet good long -term thinking skills. I think a teacher should have an idea other than another responsibility.”
James Macjankin
James McGingin is a retired intensive care pediatrician who testified during the committee meeting. He is concerned about gun injuries to children after treating a 3 -year -old child who was shot by his 7 -year -old brother. The young victim was paralyzed from the neck, depended on a ventilator and died four years after the accidental shooting.
“I was very impressed that unknown injuries can be extremely dangerous and in this sense, where we are thinking about offering guns in schools, I am very concerned about the ability of these unknown injuries that can be serious and can completely change life and completely prevented,” Mcjankin said in the hall after the meeting.
“I think people unknowingly underestimate the ability of injuries.”
Mcjunkin is advocating preventive safety measures such as improvement in school entrance and exit, suspected activity reporting, hazard assessment and teaching safe storage at home.
“When we focus on prevention,” McGingen said, “We do not need to take a reactive approach to the gun then.”