Only days ago, the people who successfully argued for permitless carry of weapons in much of society were arguing that the state’s gun-training course was almost useless and lacked any depth. Now it could become the only training the Legislature requires to carry a gun around children at school.

Roberts argues the change is needed because districts are having a hard time finding personnel willing to go through the required training.

We’ve got a different reading of those same statistics: School teachers don’t want to carry guns in schools. It’s not what they want to do. It’s not what they’re trained to do.

At any rate, shouldn’t the goal be to make schools safer rather than just more fully armed? Allowing marginally trained people to strap on a firearm in a public school certainly accomplishes the second idea, but we think it works against the first.

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