Nebraska Senator’s Bill Would Allow Teachers To Carry Guns

By on January 19, 2011 in News 19

Seal of NebraskaThe Lincoln Journal Star reports:

On the heels of the fatal shooting of an Omaha-area school administrator by a despondent student, Sen. Mark Christensen of Imperial introduced a bill Tuesday to allow teachers, administrators and school security guards to carry concealed guns.

The bill (LB516) would allow local school boards to choose by a two-thirds vote whether to allow such weapons on their property. The bill also applies to colleges and universities.

Christensen said he introduced his bill in response to the Jan. 5 shooting at Millard South High School, where 17-year-old student Robert Butler Jr. shot Assistant Principal Vicki Kaspar and then shot Principal Curtis Case. Kaspar had suspended Butler from the school earlier that morning. She died of her injury; Curtis has been released from the hospital.

Police found Butler about 45 minutes after the shooting in a parking lot about a mile from the school, dead from a self-inflicted gunshot…

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  • 5by5

    Because what you really need in the classroom? Crossfire.

  • 5by5

    Because what you really need in the classroom? Crossfire.

  • 5by5

    Because what you really need in the classroom? Crossfire.

    • WhiteRose

      Do they sell bullet proof books?

  • Belcat

    Next in the news – student grabs teachers gun, and fires at everyone. No need for them to even get guns now, just need to distract a teacher for a second, or even pin them.
    Americans. Always going for the wrong solution.

  • Belcat

    Next in the news – student grabs teachers gun, and fires at everyone. No need for them to even get guns now, just need to distract a teacher for a second, or even pin them.
    Americans. Always going for the wrong solution.

  • Anonymous

    You mean, they don’t now?

  • http://drwho.virtadpt.net/ The Doctor

    You mean, they don’t now?

  • BananaFamine

    When inevitably a disturbed teacher shoots a student, will we see a bill which allows students to carry guns on them too?

  • BananaFamine

    When inevitably a disturbed teacher shoots a student, will we see a bill which allows students to carry guns on them too?

    • WhiteRose

      I think I just read about one punching two students so you aren’t too far off…

  • StillAtMyMoms

    How f****** irrelevant. How about allowing teachers to deviate from the national education mandate known as No Child Left Behind.

  • StillAtMyMoms

    How f****** irrelevant. How about allowing teachers to deviate from the national education mandate known as No Child Left Behind.

  • WhiteRose

    I’ll be taking an online class thank you ha ha Seriously though the media needs to stop focusing on the negative and focus on the positive. Laughner is insane… but wait a minute there were lots of warning signs and nobody bothered to stop him along the way. When people say don’t blame the parent’s I say bulls**t they didn’t get their kid help.

  • WhiteRose

    I’ll be taking an online class thank you ha ha Seriously though the media needs to stop focusing on the negative and focus on the positive. Laughner is insane… but wait a minute there were lots of warning signs and nobody bothered to stop him along the way. When people say don’t blame the parent’s I say bulls**t they didn’t get their kid help.

    • Jordan

      Laughner was not involved in a SCHOOL SHOOTING and he was TWENTY-TWO years old. Funny Laughner was brought up here, since I noticed the media immediately tried to spin the Laughner story like he was a messed up teenager and shot up class mates… even down to showing that curly-headed photo of him from like 4 or 5 years ago. This young adult is indeed insane, temporarily or not, and although we do not know his motives, they are clearly politically fueled. Sorry, but I really had to say that. As far as teachers bringing guns to school: Yeah, let’s add some more hypocrisy in to fix the situation. As a child, I hated authority figures much more than my classmates, especially if I thought THEY thought they had some sort of power over me. All I can imagine out of this is more teachers being shot, rather than students. C’mon… they don’t get paid enough already.

  • WhiteRose

    I think I just read about one punching two students so you aren’t too far off…

  • WhiteRose

    Do they sell bullet proof books?

  • Jordan

    Laughner was not involved in a SCHOOL SHOOTING and he was TWENTY-TWO years old. Funny Laughner was brought up here, since I noticed the media immediately tried to spin the Laughner story like he was a messed up teenager and shot up class mates… even down to showing that curly-headed photo of him from like 4 or 5 years ago. This young adult is indeed insane, temporarily or not, and although we do not know his motives, they are clearly politically fueled. Sorry, but I really had to say that. As far as teachers bringing guns to school: Yeah, let’s add some more hypocrisy in to fix the situation. As a child, I hated authority figures much more than my classmates, especially if I thought THEY thought they had some sort of power over me. All I can imagine out of this is more teachers being shot, rather than students. C’mon… they don’t get paid enough already.