Tennessee lawmakers pass bill to allow armed teachers, a year after deadly Nashville shooting
Headline from Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Protesters chanted “Blood on your hands” at Tennessee House Republicans on Tuesday after they passed a bill that would allow some teachers and staff to carry concealed handguns on public school grounds, and bar parents and other teachers from knowing who was armed.
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The bill's passage in the Republican-led Legislature comes a year after a shooter opened fire and killed six people at The Covenant School in Nashville.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Protesters chanted “Blood on your hands” at Tennessee House Republicans on Tuesday after they passed a bill that would allow some teachers and staff to carry concealed handguns on public school grounds, and bar parents and other teachers from knowing who was armed.
One year after six people were killed at Nashville’s Covenant School, Tennessee remains the arena of one of the fiercest debates over gun policy nationwide.
“A teacher is not allowed to put a rainbow flag on her desk, but she’s allowed to carry a gun in this state,” Democratic state Sen. Raumesh Akbari fumed.
Some public school teachers in Tennessee could gain new powers to carry concealed guns into the classroom, a year after a deadly school shooting in the state’s capital city stirred impassioned debate about the best ways to curb such violence.
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