{"id":1363348,"date":"2022-03-07T15:18:54","date_gmt":"2022-03-07T20:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1363348"},"modified":"2022-03-07T20:59:20","modified_gmt":"2022-03-08T01:59:20","slug":"it-could-be-anyone-in-the-district-tiny-texas-school-district-now-allowing-teachers-to-carry-firearms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/it-could-be-anyone-in-the-district-tiny-texas-school-district-now-allowing-teachers-to-carry-firearms\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It Could Be Anyone In the District\u2019: Tiny Texas School District Now Allowing Teachers To Carry Firearms"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fit-could-be-anyone-in-the-district-tiny-texas-school-district-now-allowing-teachers-to-carry-firearms%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1363348&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/03\/GettyImages-924246940.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A small Texas school district with an enrollment of roughly 1200 is now permitting some of the teachers to carry firearms to protect the students.<\/p>\n<p>The Grand Saline Independent School District, east of Dallas, started permitting the teachers to carry firearms in late February. Superintendent Micah Lewis told <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/03\/07\/texas-school-district-to-arm-teachers-with-weapons\/\">The New York Post<\/a>, \u201cEvery time there was a school shooting, me and the board talked about it again. If some crazy came in here, could we minimize the damage by being armed?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cWe\u2019re educators. I hate that we have to do that, but again, you weigh it out. Do you take this student down if he\u2019s mowing people down? It\u2019s an easy answer. You take one to save many.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lewis <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbs19.tv\/article\/news\/education\/staff-will-be-allowed-to-carry-arms-on-campus-in-grand-saline-isd\/501-31ce8a26-e0a7-4c79-b045-c91ef5851fd4\">told CBS 19<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>I figured that in the community of Grand Saline we would have support. There\u2019s going to be a few people that question, why would you want to do that? We just weighed out, do we think that our kids are more safe or less safe if we do this, and we feel like our kids would be more safe if we enacted the Guardian Plan.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>It could be anyone, it could be any employee of the district. And we don\u2019t divulge who that is, of course, we don\u2019t divulge where they are. We don\u2019t divulge how many are on each campus or in each building. But it could be any employee in the district.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Lewis said that district employees who want to carry the firearms must have a license to carry and apply for the program to enter screening and training with the Texas Department of Public Safety, entailing 40 initial hours of training initially and further training on a continuous basis. The staffers must also have a license to carry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe guardian keeps possession of the firearm at all times and the weapons are not stored on campus,\u201d The Post noted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the guardians said to me, \u2018Can you believe that we\u2019re to this point? When I went into education 30 years ago, I never thought this would happen,\u2019\u201d Lewis said, concluding, \u201cNinety-five percent of people here support this. The only people who have not supported it are outsiders.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One Grand Saline resident told CBS 19, \u201cI think that handguns in schools are something that\u2019s necessary these days. People go crazy. They bring guns in school and start killing people. I mean there\u2019s been too much of it going on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>National Review <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/news\/texas-governor-signs-bill-allowing-more-armed-teachers\/\">noted<\/a> in June 2019, after Texas GOP Governor Greg Abbott <a href=\"denied:applewebdata:\/\/1fb6c6b2-cb48-476c-952e-e9a5ef3bad99\/v\">signed into law<\/a> a bill that removed the cap on the number of teachers who can become armed marshals in schools:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>Teachers who wish to participate in\u00a0Texas\u2019s school armed marshal program, which was implemented after the Sandy Hook\u00a0Elementary School shooting in 2012 must undergo\u00a0active shooter drills as well as 80 hours of training. School marshals must keep their weapons locked up and away from students unless their main job does not involve\u00a0\u201cregular, direct contact with students,\u201d in which case they are allowed to carry a concealed firearm.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A small Texas school district with an enrollment of roughly 1200 is now permitting some of the teachers to carry firearms to protect the students.The Grand Saline Independent School District,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1363348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1363348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1363348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1363348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1363348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}