As expected, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine on Monday signed a bill that would allow teachers and other school staff to carry guns in school after 24 hours of training, down from the 700 hours required under former state law.
is meant to make it easier for school districts to arm teachers, which supporters said will make schools a less vulnerable target to attackers.that set the 700-hour training standard, the measure picked up steam following the massacre in May at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas in which a gunman shot and killed 19 students and two teachers. Also on Monday, a different bill that DeWine signed in March took effect allowing people to carry a concealed weapon without training.
Detractors, meanwhile, say the bill will make schools less safe and lawmakers instead should make it harder for people to obtain guns in the first place. Among the groups that testified against the bill was the Fraternal Order of Police, a police union that said the training was inadequate to make sure teachers were prepared to use deadly force.
DeWine said Monday he imagines that school administrators will choose to arm staff who are qualified to carry a gun and make life-or-death decisions. DeWine previously has said he would prefer that schools use police officers or trained security guards rather than arming staff as part of their school-safety plans.
“Today, Ohio is doing something, and I’m grateful to see this bill being signed into law,” Hall said. But, DeWine said he hopes that Republican lawmakers still will take up other aspects of his gun-safety proposal, such as toughening penalties for people with repeat gun-crime convictions, and requiring local government to input new serious criminal convictions into the background-check database used for gun purchases within 48 hours. The Republican-controlled legislature so far has shown little interest in DeWine’s proposals.
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