Teachers with guns

Some teachers and staff(who have been trained) in the Harrold, Texas, school district carry concealed guns in the school as the last line of defense in the event of a shooting on campus. The town is 30 miles from the nearest law enforcement agency. David Thweatt, superintendent of the school district, sees his job not only as an educator, but also a protector of the 120 or so kindergarten through 12th grade students in his care. In the wake of several major school shootings around the country, his school district passed the first-of-its- kind concealed handgun policy in 2007, aiming to provide protection for students in case of an active shooter. They called it the Guardian Plan.

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