First fox: Nashville Congressman Andy OglesR-Tennessee is dropping a bill to expand teachers’ Second Amendment rights and protect students from school shootings.
Ogles will introduce the Teachers Against Harm in Classroom (TEACH) Act on Friday to establish a grant program to provide students with protective firearms training programs. armed intruder.
Ogles told Fox News Digital, “The TEACH Act strengthens schools by allowing teachers and school personnel to participate in defense training programs aimed at protecting schools and their children. ‘ said.
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Rep. Andy Ogles, a Nashville, Tennessee, spoke Friday against classroom harm to establish a grant program to provide a defensive firearms training program to protect students from armed intruders. We are introducing legislation to empower empowered teachers. (Wynn McNamee/Getty Images)
“Currently, Secretary of Education Cardona has more than $27.5 million in personal slush funds. Instead of using that money to advance a leftist indoctrination campaign, we want our children to be safe from armed intruders. We should try to protect that,” he continued.
“We cannot ban the intentions of wicked people, but we can allow well-intentioned and responsible men and women to be equipped to stop the wicked,” he added. The bill will help make students, educators and classrooms safer.”
Republican Rep. Andy Biggs, who co-sponsored the bill, told Fox News Digital that “Democrats’ approach to gun violence in schools has repeatedly failed and violates Second Amendment rights.” said.
“Strengthening America’s schools is an effective first step toward protecting children from armed intruders, not punishing law-abiding gun owners,” Biggs said. “I applaud Rep. Ogle’s latest legislation that will make schools stronger and allow children to be protected from gun violence.”
Republican Rep. Andy Biggs, who co-sponsored the bill, told Fox News Digital that “Democrats’ approach to gun violence in schools has repeatedly failed and violates Second Amendment rights.” said. (Wynn McNamee/Getty Images)
Colorado Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert, another co-sponsor of the bill, told Fox News Digital, “By 2021, 49% of active shooters will be stopped by armed civilians.” He said.
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“If Congress is serious about preventing school shootings, it should strengthen schools, give teachers self-defense training, and more than half of the states allow constitutional carry. “Sometimes we need to modernize our school’s firearms policy,” Boubert said.
“Protecting the Second Amendment is the most effective way to prevent violence in our communities and stop school shootings,” she continued. “Gun-free zones are dangerous. Vulnerable.” because it creates a strong target.”
“Republicans need to debunk the myth that gun control is the solution to school shootings, and we are serious about protecting the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution,” Bobert said. , we need to show that we are protecting our students from evil killers,” he added.
Another co-sponsor of the bill, Colorado Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert, told Fox News Digital that “49% of active shooters will be stopped by armed civilians in 2021.” rice field. (Wynn McNamee/Getty Images)
This measure would remove the prohibition on using Elementary and Secondary Education Act funds for school safety and would have states and local jurisdictions adopt policies that go further than the Federal Gun-Free School Zones Act. Repeals the section of the United States Code that encourages
In addition, the measure diverted approximately $27.6 million in funding allocated by the Secretary of Education for technical assistance and development to new voluntary grants to provide defensive firearms training programs to help teachers defend their schools. Direct to the program.
The bill already has double-digit Republican co-sponsors, including Biggs and Beaubert, in addition to Rep. Troy Nels of Texas and Rep. Alex Mooney of West Virginia.
The action is also supported by the gun rights nonprofit Gun Owners of America (GOA).
GOA’s Director of Federal Affairs, Aiden Johnston, told Fox News Digital, “GOA is proud to support this legislation from Congressman Ogle.”
“At GOA, we have championed the need to strengthen our schools, and this comes in many forms,” says Johnston. “Whether by arming aspiring teachers or empowering parents, these policies play an important role in deterring violence in schools.”
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In addition, the measure diverted approximately $27.6 million in funding for technical assistance and development from Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona to new voluntary firearms training programs for teachers to protect schools. Redirect to grant program. (REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein)
“There’s a reason we don’t have mass shootings in schools with armed teachers, and Rep. Ogles’ law provides federal funds to train aspiring teachers and modernize school firearms policies once and for all.” It plays an important role in strengthening schools by creating a pool of more than half of the United States recognizes constitutional carry,” he continued.
The Ogles neighborhood, which includes parts of Nashville, was killed by police last month after a transgender shooter killed three 9-year-olds and three adults at a Christian school.
Republicans in Tennessee sharply criticized a far-left transgender group for trying to portray the Nashville school shooter as a “martyr.”
Following the shooting of The Covenant School, the Trans Resistance Network released a statement saying it was a double tragedy for the victims, their families and the transgender shooter, 28-year-old Audrey Hale.
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“Any attempt to turn a mass murderer into a martyr is beyond upsetting,” Ogles, representing the community where the shooting took place, told Fox News Digital. The idea of trying to transform it sickens me to the core.
“March 27, 2023 was not the double tragedy that this radical group wrote about,” said Ogles. “This was a targeted attack on Christian school children perpetrated by hateful domestic terrorists. There is no place to accept or justify the actions of the Covenant School shooter.” .”
Joe Schoffstall of Fox News Digital contributed to the report.
