Georgia County School System to Allow Employees to Carry Guns

[Graybeard]

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/georgia-schools-guns/2022/07/18/id/1079290/

By Theodore Bunker    |   Monday, 18 July 2022 03:04 PM EDT

The Board of Education in Cobb County, Georgia, recently voted to allow noncertified district employees, and not teachers, to carry guns while in school buildings.

Superintendent Chris Ragsdale told Fox 5 Atlanta that "this policy gives us other opportunities to enhance and increase the number of school resource officers."

He added that the board amended the proposal to specifically exclude teachers and staff who work in classrooms from carrying firearms.

"I was not in favor of arming teachers, but I was in favor of exploring all possibilities of being able to enhance and increase the number of school resource officers that we have," Ragsdale said.

“Teachers are not going to be armed,” Ragsdale told WSB radio. “It is very important, obviously, for us to exhaust every possible option for keeping our staff and students safe."

Some parents spoke out against the decision.

Laura Judge, a mother of two children in the Cobb County school system, told Fox 5: "I'm happy that the superintendent doesn't want to arm teachers, but I am afraid of armed individuals being around my children."

Beoncia Loveless, a mother of a child in Cobb County who volunteers with Moms Demand Action, told WSB: "I absolutely would be concerned about unintentional shootings."

She added: "More guns around our children is not the best way to make them safe."

[BUGEYE]

I guess people like Laura Judge is okay with having a murderer around her children instead of good guys with guns.
But we still need to harden our schools and fire any school employee who props a door open to run to their car or have a smoke.

[Dixie-Dude]

I hope more states and school systems do this.  This would stop potential murderers and maybe wouldn't cost people $40,000 a year to keep them in prison. 

[Dee]

Numerous Texas Schools have armed the teachers several years ago. Especially here in West Texas. But a bunch of school districts are obvious, thinking it'll never happen to them.

[Land_Owner]

Another SCREAMING LIBERAL feel good "No Gun Zone" advertisement that Teachers will be no threat, continuing to disarm them of their 2A Right to carry concealed.