Under this new bill, Texas public schools would no longer be 'gun-free zones.'
A bill filed this week in Austin would allow public and charter school employees to carry concealed handguns on school grounds. Under Sen. Bob Hall’s, as long as the employee is licensed to carry a concealed weapon, school districts would be unable to adopt rules prohibiting them from doing so on its property.
At the time, he told ABC it was the next logical progression in the state’s campus carry laws to avoid making schools easy targets."Schools, known as a gun-free zone, might as well hang a neon sign saying, 'If you want to harm kids, come in here,'" Hall toldNow, he’s back with virtually the same bill.
Under the bill, school districts would also be unable to adopt rules prohibiting licensed teachers from keeping guns in their cars on school property.Texas has allowed school districts to have certain faculty members carry guns on the premises since 2007 as part of something called the guardian plan. Similarly, the school marshal program created by the state in 2013 allows school districts to choose employees who are licensed to carry a gun to volunteer as school protectors.
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