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State Lawmaker Proposes Bill to Allow Teachers to Carry Concealed Firearms at School


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A Maine state lawmaker has proposed a bill that would allow teachers and other school employees to carry concealed firearms at school.

Republican state Sen. David Burns says he has been thinking of similar legislation for about a year but made his proposal in response to the death of 20 students and six educators at a Newtown, Conn., elementary school last month.

Burns' bill would require school employees carrying concealed guns to take a firearms training course and undergo a psychological exam.

It would also require the approval of the local school board, superintendent and principal, as well as the notification of parents.

The bill would also give school districts the authority to hire armed security guards.

Burns is a retired state police trooper from Whiting in eastern Maine.

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I am a proud NRA member, a certified NRA Safety Instructor for handguns, rifles, shotguns, and home safety and an advocate for firearm ownership in the highest order. To believe that any type of ban will preclude a crazed individual from wrecking carnage and death while selecting targets that proudly proclaim themselves to be free of any counter constraints is foolish at best. I support having one or two teachers in every school become certified Reserve Police Officers, carry concealed weapons in their schools on a daily basis, and become the first line of defense, capable of actually terminating an attack in the gravest extreme. Before being subjected to responders screaming about "teachers with guns" understand that these teachers would be certified police officers as well as educators. If you believe that bans, restsrictions, and limitations will prevent future attacks upon our innocents by crazed assassins, rest assured that you will sadly be proven wrong. To prevent an extended attack is to terminate that attack in the most timely and permamant manner. Ken Fogelman
Ken Fogelman Ken Fogelman 01/23/2013 12:24 pm

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