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Virginia’s Lee County school district voted to arm teachers and pay for their guns and training.
Lee County is the first in the state to allow teachers to be armed.
School board member Rob Hines added, “At least it gives us a chance. If we sat there and did nothing, I couldn’t sleep at night. At least we’re trying to do something.”
Members of the board also noted that arming teachers was the most cost efficient means of increasing school safety. And numerous teachers have already volunteered to carry guns.
The school district agreed to pay for the teachers’ guns and also to cover the cost of their training.
As noted previously the article says teachers, but the actual resolution may be school employees / staff.
"Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property. . . Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them."
- Thomas Paine
"Malo periculosam, libertatem quam quietam servitutem."
FYI: Lee County is the west most county in Virginia.
Sandwiched between Kentucky and Tennessee, it couldn't be farther from the blue counties of the Washington and Richmond area.
It's actually farther west than all of West Virginia.
That should give you a good idea of the general attitude regarding firearms there.
AlanM
There are no dangerous weapons; there are only dangerous men. - RAH
Four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, ammo - use in that order.
If you aren't part of the solution, then you obviously weren't properly dissolved.