TN is moving forward with a couple of bills that will actually be effective.
1. SB2923 which will require mandatory gun safety training in schools. Note this is NOT instruction on how to shoot a gun. It is how to be safe if you find one.
Beginning with the 2025-2026 school year, this bill requires each LEA and public charter school to annually provide students with age-appropriate and grade-appropriate instruction on firearm safety. The instruction must begin with the earliest appropriate grade, as determined by the departments above, and must continue in each subsequent grade through grade 12. The instruction required must do the following:
(1) Teach students safe storage of firearms, school safety relating to firearms, how to avoid injury if the student finds a firearm, to never touch a found firearm, and to immediately notify an adult of the location of a found firearm;
(2) Be viewpoint neutral on political topics, such as gun rights, gun violence, and the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution; and
(3) Not include the use or presence of live ammunition, live fire, or live firearms.
2) Tennessee Senate advances bill to arm teachers a year after deadly Nashville school shooting.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Republican lawmakers in Tennessee advanced a proposal Tuesday to allow some teachers to carry handguns on public school grounds, a move that would mark one of the state’s biggest expansions of gun access since a deadly shooting at a private elementary school last year...
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This is good news. Teachers who want to be first responders and are appropriately qualified should have that option. Nashville TN police did a great job at Covenant School but police may not always be able to respond as fast.