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TFollowerII · 发表于 2014-8-27 09:44

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More Texas public-school districts have adopted rules allowing employees to carry guns on campus in an effort to deter—or quickly respond to—shootings. Still, most schools have chosen not to arm their staff.

Texas is among at least eight states that have passed laws since the 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., allowing school employees to carry guns on campus, the National Conference of State Legislatures said. At least 78 of Texas' 1,024 districts have reported adopting a "school guardian" plan in which designated staff are authorized to carry a gun, up from one district before Sandy Hook, according to the Texas Association of School Boards.

Texas also enacted a law last year that allows schools to designate workers—including teachers—as "marshals" who have access to guns on school premises after they undergo a psychological exam and 80 hours of instruction, including handgun training and active-shooter drills. "Schools need to be able to shave their response time" to armed intruders "from minutes to seconds," said Jason Villalba, a Republican state representative from Dallas who wrote the law, which is modeled on the federal air-marshal program.

But so far only seven Texas districts have sent employees for marshal training. The vast majority have chosen to rely on local law enforcement or their own school police departments, which some large districts maintain. Others contract with local police.

Gun-control groups, which oppose increasing weapons in schools, say many education officials nationwide have decided that additional firearms aren't the solution, even in states that adopted laws allowing personnel to arm themselves.

"Exponentially more schools have said, 'Thanks but no thanks, we'd rather not have guns on school property,' " said Josh Horwitz, executive director of the Washington, D.C.-based Coalition to Stop Gun Violence. "If you talk to most teachers and educators, their response is, let teachers teach and let law-enforcement officers do their jobs."

The seven other states that passed legislation to allow school employees to carry guns are Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Kansas, Oklahoma, South Dakota and Tennessee.

In South Dakota, which adopted a "school sentinels" law in 2013 allowing districts to arm employees, schools in Sioux Falls have chosen instead to rely on local police officers for protection, said DeeAnn Konrad, community relations supervisor for the Sioux Falls School District. "We have law-enforcement officials who are trained so there is no need to have armed staff members," she said.

Still, some Texas schools believe they must at least consider arming their employees.

"Every administrator in the state has an uneasy feeling because we know we're not set up to be a fortress," said Joey Light, superintendent of Wylie Independent School District in Abilene, Texas, which has 3,800 students. The district sent an employee to a marshal-training program in Fort Worth in July. A marshal typically is an employee who continues to perform regular duties but has access to a gun.

There is some disagreement, however, about the best way to give employees such access.

David Thweatt, superintendent of Harrold Independent School District, a 125-student district in North Texas, said the state's marshal program has too many precautions, including a rule that requires certain marshals to keep their guns in a "locked and secured safe."

"That's almost like saying you can have a car but the engine has to be out," Mr. Thweatt said, whose district was the first in Texas to adopt a guardian plan almost seven years ago.

Craig Miller, chief of police for the Dallas Independent School District, said schools that allow armed employees should use the marshal program training. "Not everyone with a concealed-handgun license should be allowed to carry a gun in a school," he said.

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