Arming Staff News Today

One of the bills awaiting the governor's signature is a proposal to give school districts the option of arming staff.

Our children we need to take those stems. its dangerous today. >> reporter: with school starting monday, most parents arent surprised and support it. >> i think its great, yes, maam. >> reporter: school board members discussed arming staff during may meetingts. they have issued a statement saying our school marshals have gone through an intense vetting process and a very rigorous training program. training will be ongoing. not everyone is thrilled. >> i kind of agree with protecting our students...

About the teachers -- arming staff, they stress the fact that its voluntary. i grew up in the panhandle of florida. the people that you really dont want having guns in school are the people who really, really want to have guns in school. >> i want to amplify that point by playing cynthia stafford, state representative from miami, furthering the point about why it is so dangerous, the idea of arming people in the classroom. >> i believe this is dangerous because there is an implicit bias that exi...

Fixed it! and im pissed, because my daughter im not going to see again! shes not here. shes not here. we all work together to come up with the right idea, school safety. its not about gun laws right now. >> laura: the focus should be on school security. the soft targets that are so vulnerable today. arming staff who are well-trained, getting authorities on the state, local and federal level to see the obvious warning signs and act on them and this obvious fact that america has become a society o...

Attempt. you have a threat on the outside, now you have weapons inside the school building. how do you respond to people who have that concern? >> i appreciate preme who have concerns about that i have had other law enforcement officials express that concern to me. >> with the amount of training that we put them through, i extremely comfortable with their ability to do the job. the other thing i will tell them is, if you dont like doing what we are doing that is fine. if you can come up with a b...

And im pissed, because my daughter im not going to see again! shes not here. shes not here. we all work together to come up with the right idea, school safety. its not about gun laws right now. >> laura: the focus should be on school security. the soft targets that are so vulnerable today. arming staff who are well-trained, getting authorities on the state, local and federal level to see the obvious warning signs and act on them and this obvious fact that america has become a society of stranger...