[BITList] staff can't carry guns on campus

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On 8/2/2013 10:59 PM, x50type wrote:
> Oh no - who will kill the bad guys?
> NRA in disbelief  – wayne lapierre crying.
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>   Arkansas AG: Teachers, staff can't carry guns on campus
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> arkansas-guns2-07112013.jpg
> In this file photo taken July 11, a Clarksville Schools faculty 
> member, top right, carries an air-powered practice handgun to a 
> classroom as firearms instructors, left, watch and students, lying on 
> the floor, portray victims during a training exercise in Clarksville, 
> Ark. Arkansas' attorney general on Thursday said in an opinion issued 
> by his office that the Arkansas board of Private Investigators and 
> Private Security Agencies doesn't have the authority to license school 
> districts to employ teachers and staff as armed guards./(AP 
> Photo/Danny Johnston, File)/
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> <http://blog.nola.com/education_impact/print.html?entry=/2013/08/arkansas_ag_teachers_staff_can.html>
> The Associated Press 
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> on August 02, 2013 at 7:17 AM
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>       GUN CONTROL NEWS
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>   * *Arkansas AG: Teachers, staff can't carry guns on campus*
>     <http://www.nola.com/education/index.ssf/2013/08/arkansas_ag_teachers_staff_can.html>
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>   * *Arkansas school to arm teachers, staff*
>     <http://www.nola.com/education/index.ssf/2013/07/arkansas_school_to_arm_teacher.html>
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>   * *Understanding Louisiana's Stand-Your-Ground and Castle Laws*
>     <http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2013/07/louisiana_stand_your_ground_zi.html>
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>   * *Gretna man accidentally shoots and kills 16-year-old friend while
>     showing group semi-automatic weapon*
>     <http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2013/06/gretna_man_accidentally_shoots.html>
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>   * *Gun background check supporters hold rally in New Orleans*
>     <http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2013/06/gun_background_check_supporter.html>
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> LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- Arkansas school districts can't use a 
> little-known state law to employ teachers and staff as guards who can 
> carry guns on campus, the state's attorney general said Thursday in an 
> opinion that likely ends a *district's plan to arm more than 20 
> employees* 
> <http://www.nola.com/education/index.ssf/2013/07/arkansas_school_to_arm_teacher.html>when 
> school starts later this year.
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> Attorney General Dustin McDaniel, a Democrat, wrote in a legal opinion 
> issued by his office that a state board that licenses private security 
> agencies didn't have the authority to allow districts to employ their 
> teachers and staff as security guards. A state lawmaker requested the 
> opinion a day after The Associated Press reported on a plan by the 
> Clarksville School District in western Arkansas to use more than 20 
> teachers and staff as volunteer security guards armed with concealed 9 
> mm handguns.
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> "Simply put, the code in my opinion does not authorize either 
> licensing a school district as a guard company or classifying it as a 
> private business authorized to employ its own teachers as armed 
> guards," McDaniel wrote.
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> David Hopkins, Clarksville's superintendent, said he had spoken with 
> McDaniel earlier Thursday about the opinion. Hopkins said he was still 
> reviewing the opinion but that "it sounds like he's saying that we 
> can't do the program."
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> "Obviously we're going to comply with the law. We're not going to 
> break the law," said Hopkins, who had appeared on NBC's "Today" show 
> Thursday morning to tout the program. "We wanted to provide the 
> training and give the sense of a secure place for our parents and 
> students. I tell you, this has really thrown a monkey wrench into it."
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> The idea of arming schoolhouses against gunmen was hotly debated 
> across the country after the school shooting in Connecticut last 
> December that left 20 children and six teachers dead. The National 
> Rifle Association declared it the best response to serious threats. 
> But even in the most conservative states, most proposals faltered in 
> the face of resistance from educators or warnings from insurance 
> companies that schools would face higher premiums.
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> Participants in Clarksville's program are given a one-time $1,100 
> stipend to purchase a handgun and holster. Hopkins said the district 
> is paying about $50,000 for ammunition and for training by Nighthawk 
> Custom Training Academy, a private training facility in northwest 
> Arkansas.
>
> The 53-hour training program included roleplaying drills of school 
> shootings, with teachers and staff using "airsoft" pellet guns, with 
> students wearing protective facemasks and jackets.
>
> The Lake Hamilton School District has been using the same law for 
> years to train a handful of administrators as security guards, but the 
> guns are locked away and not carried by the administrators during the 
> school day.
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> Lake Hamilton Superintendent Steve Anderson said he was talking with 
> local prosecutors, school attorneys and other officials about how to 
> proceed. Anderson said the district has had its license for 25 years.
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> "We'll take appropriate measures and I imagine this is something that 
> will eventually be settled in a court of law or the Legislature," 
> Anderson said.
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> Bill Sadler, a spokesman for Arkansas State Police, said pending 
> applications by two or three districts for similar licenses have been 
> put on hold because of McDaniel's opinion. Later Thursday, Sadler said 
> any pending applications for entities or businesses that aren't 
> security companies were also on hold.
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> Sadler said it will be up to the licensing board on what to do with 
> the 13 existing licenses.
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> "We've got to hear from the board what they want us to do with the 
> existing licenses that are out there," Sadler said. "Until we hear 
> that and get some clear guidance from the board, we're in a holding 
> pattern"
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> McDaniel said his opinion wouldn't affect districts' ability to 
> contract with private security companies or to use law enforcement as 
> school resource officers. He also noted that the Legislature has the 
> power to change the law prohibiting school employees from carrying 
> guns on campus.
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> A House panel in February rejected a bill that would have allowed some 
> school employees to carry concealed handguns on campus after 
> completing a 40-hour course at a state law enforcement training academy.
>
> McDaniel's non-binding opinion also said that it's up to prosecutors 
> whether or how to proceed against school employees who are relying on 
> the licenses to carry concealed weapons on campus.
>
> McDaniel noted that the districts were seeking licenses under a 
> provision of the law that applies to private security firms and guard 
> companies.
>
> "If a school district were indeed functioning as a 'guard company,' 
> then, it would be organized to provide services to any and all 
> 'customers' purely for the purpose of generating income -- a private 
> business motivation that is self-evidently anathema to a school 
> district's purely public functions," he wrote.
>
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