Eanes ISD will be in compliance with a new law going into effect in September that says school districts must have an armed guard on every campus.
, which received bipartisan support, was a legislative response to the Uvalde massacre, in which a gunman killed 19 students and two teachers at an elementary school. There was no security guard specifically assigned to that campus at the time of the shooting.
. “It’s not lost on me that having anyone stand in the way, having anyone hinder that attacker in that instance, could have saved lives that day.”“We have to put things in place, and people in place, that have the proper training and expertise that could potentially slow down or hinder someone who seeks to do harm,” Rep. Moody said. “And it’s not something that I took lightly. It’s not something that I look at in any way other than a parent of young children. It’s a complicated situation.
“One of the largest failures that we had in this last session is we did nothing, absolutely nothing, to restrict people that shouldn’t have access to high-powered firearms [from] having that access. And that is a large gaping hole in our policy right now in Texas,” Rep. Moody said. “That is what I think a lot of parents across the state want to see. I know it’s what I want to see and what I’ve continued to fight for in the Legislature.
Reps. Moody and Clardy both say they’d be willing to provide districts with more security funding in the future.
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