Kentucky lawmakers demand more guns in classes after school shooting killed two children
Lawmakers in Kentucky want to put armed police in classrooms to stop school shootings - but they won’t restrict access to firearms
Hours after authorities said a 15-year-old student shot and killed two classmates at a western Kentucky high school on Tuesday, a Republican senator in the state’s Capitol rushed to file a bill intended to prevent future tragedies – by putting more guns in schools.
The legislation from state Senator Steve West would let local districts hire armed marshals to patrol public schools, make citizen’s arrests and protect people from “imminent death or serious physical injury.”
Marshals wouldn’t have to be police officers, but school district employees in good standing who have a license to carry concealed weapons.
Meanwhile Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin has vowed never to sign gun restriction legislation, instead blaming gun violence on “evil” and bad influences from music and the media.
I’m just adamantly opposed to [gun restrictions]. It’s a constitutional right that we have
His is one of at least two bills that would allow more guns into Kentucky’s public schools and on college campuses.