Fact-checking is an odd industry. We’ve seen plenty of examples of “fact-checks” that seemingly dispute the actual facts, ignoring the plethora of evidence supporting an initial claim, all because the fact-checker really wanted the claim to be false.
Others will simply gloss over inconvenient facts and twist things so that they can justify a favorable result, even if it’s utter nonsense.
But earlier today, I came across a fact-check about armed teachers. The question being addressed is whether or not 31 states allow armed teachers. This is, of course, true. However, the fact-checker actually went a bit further and illustrated a bit of an issue with the laws permitting this. In particular, how it may have made the Apalachee High School shooting possible, though they didn’t necessarily mean to.
The overwhelming majority of states that allow teachers to carry guns require school teachers to get permission from either the school or the district first. And some states also require teachers to get special training, or to be chosen for a particular school safety program before being allowed to carry on school property.
An Oct. 27, 2023, report from VERIFY partner station 11Alive found just three of 180 Georgia school districts permitted teachers to carry guns at that time. A March 31, 2023, report from the Ohio Capital Journal found that 22 Ohio school districts of the state’s 600 districts permitted teachers to carry guns in schools. In June 2018, Firearms Owners Against Crime said that 217 Texas school districts, 21% of the state’s more than 1,000 districts, allowed staff to be armed.
The RAND Corporation, a research group, could not find any credible studies showing that laws allowing armed staff in schools either increased or decreased school shootings and violence in a Jan. 10, 2023, research review. […]
— Read More: bearingarms.com
