Apalachee High School in Winder in Barrow County was put on a hard lockdown Wednesday morning because of a shooting incident, according to officials. Tragically, there are casualties. As we have pointed out many times, all the school attacks where anyone has been killed or injured occur in schools that don’t allow teachers to carry.
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In 2018, Laurens County in central Georgia made history when the school board became the first in the state to allow teachers to carry weapons into the classroom.
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Laurens School Superintendent Clifford Garnto said each school has, on average, seven employees with a weapon. Some are teachers; some are not.
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“We vary between 55-60 employees who carry,” said Garnto. “Those who carry follow the same training as law enforcement and must meet the same qualification standards.” . . .
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Gordon and Fannin County school boards have since approved teachers to carry guns into schools. 11Alive reached out to administrators to ask how many teachers have volunteered to carry weapons into the classroom. No one has responded. . . .
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Jerry Carnes, “3 out of 180 Georgia school districts approve teachers carrying guns despite recent proposal,” 11 Alive (Atlanta, Georgia), October 27, 2023.
Is the following 2019 quote still true in 2024?: “Twenty states currently allow teachers and staff to carry guns to varying degrees on school property, so we don’t need to guess how the policy would work. There has yet to be a single case of someone being wounded or killed from a shooting, let alone a mass public shooting, between 6 AM and midnight at a school that lets teachers carry guns.”