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State Rep. Jason Villalba, R-Dallas, who authored House Bill 1009, the bill that approved the school marshal program, was on hand to greet the first class of 18 instructors.
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Villalba said only the principal and local police would know the identity of a campus school marshal and their handgun would be locked in a safe during school hours if they were around children for their job.
Doe the law state each school can get just one, or are you assumimg?howdy wrote:Notice it said school Marshall as in singular. So each school gets one with his/her gun locked in a safe. What a waste of time. I guess you can say it is a step in the right direction.
I could be mistaken but I seem to remember it being one for every 400 students.jbarn wrote:Doe the law state each school can get just one, or are you assumimg?howdy wrote:Notice it said school Marshall as in singular. So each school gets one with his/her gun locked in a safe. What a waste of time. I guess you can say it is a step in the right direction.
The article "jbarn wrote:howdy wrote:Notice it said school Marshall as in singular. So each school gets one with his/her gun locked in a safe. What a waste of time. I guess you can say it is a step in the right direction.
Doe the law state each school can get just one, or are you assumimg?
One per every 400 studentshowdy wrote:The article "jbarn wrote:howdy wrote:Notice it said school Marshall as in singular. So each school gets one with his/her gun locked in a safe. What a waste of time. I guess you can say it is a step in the right direction.
Doe the law state each school can get just one, or are you assumimg?
Villalba said only the principal and local police would know the identity of a campus school marshal and their handgun would be locked in a safe during school hours if they were around children for their job'
I guess I can read it either way but it sounds singular to me.
TBMThe media is seldom right (how's that for a generalization? lol)howdy wrote:The article "jbarn wrote:howdy wrote:Notice it said school Marshall as in singular. So each school gets one with his/her gun locked in a safe. What a waste of time. I guess you can say it is a step in the right direction.
Doe the law state each school can get just one, or are you assumimg?
Villalba said only the principal and local police would know the identity of a campus school marshal and their handgun would be locked in a safe during school hours if they were around children for their job'
I guess I can read it either way but it sounds singular to me.
Dear Candidates,
I'd like to ask a question related to school safety.
It's hard to believe that just yesterday was the 15th anniversary of the shootings at Columbine. Last Wednesday was the 7-year anniversary of the Virginia Tech shootings. It's been nearly a year and a half since Sandy Hook. And as we know, not all school violence involves guns, as was seen in Pittsburgh just weeks ago, on April 9th , where 22 people were stabbed by one 16-year-old student carrying multiple knives.
It's long standing knowledge that schools are designated “gun free zones”. In fact, in practice, schools are “weapon free zones”. In some extreme cases, students have received suspensions for chewing a pop tart into the shape of a gun or pointing their finger and saying “bang” during recess. Absurd.
I hope it's plain to all of us that passing a law and putting up a sign does nothing to prevent school violence. Crazed minds will never be stopped by a sign. And despite the fact that Keller has an outstanding police force.... “When seconds count, the Police are only minutes away.”
Last session, the Texas State Legislature reiterated it's belief that the “weapons free zones” status quo is bad policy when it passed HB1009, the School Marshal Act. The Bill passed in the House with nearly 85% support (123 to 22 - 84.8%) and it passed the Senate with over 90% support (28-3, 90.3%) before being signed into law by Governor Perry on June 14th of last year.
Prior to HB1009, it had already been longstanding Texas law that School Boards have the authority to permit people (anyone actually, not just police officers or school employees) to carry weapons in schools. Harrold ISD became the first to do so in 2008. At least 30 Texas districts (including most recently, Argyle, just a few miles North of here on 377) now have programs to authorize and train employee volunteers to possess guns on campus. Weapons that can be used to PROTECT children, should someone decide to ignore the paper laws and plastic signs, and come to campus seeking to inflict mass harm.
Please tell us, if you are elected to the Keller ISD school board, would you advocate to implement a School Marshall Program (or some similar program) for Keller ISD, and if not, why not?
Thank you.
Respectfully,
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