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Arizona attorney general proposes arming 1 educator per school ----AZ UR SO BADASS!!! thumbs up!!!
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PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne proposed a plan Wednesday to allow one educator in each school to carry a gun after receiving free firearms training from law enforcement.
The proposal comes less than two weeks after a gunman fatally shot 20 first-graders and six educators during a Dec. 14 rampage at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.
Mr. Horne said the program, which would first need legislative action to amend state law, is aimed at reducing the risk of similar shootings in Arizona.
Under the plan, which Mr. Horne said is backed by sheriffs in Pinal, Mohave and Apache counties, each public school could designate a principal or educator to keep the gun in a secure, locked location at the facility. It would limit gun-carriers to one per school and would be a voluntary program.
However, Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu came out with his own, much broader plan on Wednesday aimed at training multiple educators per school to carry guns, noting his proposal and Mr. Horne’s were “the difference between putting your toe in a pool or jumping in.”
“And they should not be in a locked box these weapons,” Sheriff Babeu said. “Our schools are not as safe as we think they are, and we need to do something about it.”
Some schools around the state already have an armed law enforcement presence through the so-called school resource officer program, but budget constraints have cut it back.
“The ideal solution would be to have an armed police officer in each school,” Mr. Horne said, echoing calls from the National Rifle Association since the Connecticut shootings.
The next best thing, he said, is to arm an educator, comparing that proposal to allowing pilots to carry guns after the 9/11 terror attacks.
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