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VA: Rural Virginia County Aims to be the First to Arm Teachers
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Nationally, teachers are overwhelmingly against the idea of carrying weapons into classrooms. Not so in the westernmost county of Virginia, where declining revenues from growing tobacco and mining coal have left the local government unable to afford more than four resource officers to protect 11 schools. Despite strong criticism from the state capitol, a six-hour drive to the east, the Lee County School Board has voted to become Virginia’s first county to arm their teachers and staff. Their next step is to ask a judge to exempt them from state law.
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“We understand that people are trying to solve the next tragedy, but why is it that arming teachers — which would actually increase the number of students in dangerous situations — is where folks want to go?” said NEA President Lily Eskelsen Garcia.
Because your argument is based upon a lie. The fact is that if/when an active shooter invades a school (or anyplace else, for that matter) the difference between life and death hinges on armed personnel being present to stop him. No guns? Dead kids. Good guns? Minimal loss of life and a dead perp.
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