Massachusetts Leaders Say Gun Laws Prevent School Shootings

We had a spirited dialogue on my Tuesday program about easy methods to make faculties on the SouthCoast safer from mass shooters. The dialogue centered round arming academics and different faculty workers, who’re licensed, educated, and prepared to defend their faculties ought to they arrive below fireplace.

There has by no means been a consensus in favor of arming faculty workers once we’ve had these discussions, often proper after a college taking pictures, and Tuesday’s program was no totally different.

The vast majority of callers appear to assist steel detectors and armed safety officers within the faculties, however they continue to be hesitant about really arming the academics.

Ohio Governor Mike DeWine has signed a invoice that provides native faculty districts the authority to resolve in the event that they wish to arm faculty academics.

In the meantime, Massachusetts officers appear targeted on gun management to avert a college taking pictures incident.

Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson and New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy are forming a coalition of six to 10 governors to debate attainable state and native options to the issue of mass faculty shootings. Hutchinson is the chair of the Nationwide Governor’s Affiliation, and Murphy is vice-chair.

The Affiliation has written a letter to President Biden to tell him of its plans.

Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker advised State Home Information Service he plans to contact Hutchinson.

“I’ve talked to him earlier than about gun management right here within the commonwealth and the character of a variety of the laws that is been handed over the past 10 or 15 years,” Baker stated.

Massachusetts Senate President Karen Spilka stated different states must undertake some gun legal guidelines enacted in Massachusetts to deal with faculty shootings.

“All of us can be a hell of quite a bit safer and our youngsters can be safer if the opposite states did that,” Spilka advised the SHNS.

It seems as if some Massachusetts politicians imagine stricter gun legal guidelines will stop faculty shootings, whereas a lot of my listeners suppose tighter faculty safety must be the precedence.

I’ve invited Bristol County Sheriff Tom Hodgson and New Bedford Police Officer and Faculty Committeeman Chris Cotter to weigh in however haven’t but acquired a response from both.

I’ll embrace any remarks I obtain from them in an replace to this text.

What do you suppose would hold extra Massachusetts faculties protected from mass shootings, extra gun legal guidelines or tighter faculty safety?