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The Guardian Program allows schools to have staff with firearms on campus. Author: Longview News-Journal Updated: 8:38 PM CST December 15, 2020 LONGVIEW, Texas — The Pine Tree ISD school board approved a program that will allow trained, approved staff to be armed on campus and raised its substitute pay at its Monday meeting. The Guardian Program allows schools to have staff with firearms on campus. Superintendent Steve Clugston said about 300 districts in the s...

Trained, they could have saved my daughter. i know how extensive the training is. its about 150 hours of training. theyre held to a higher accuracy. gun retention. theyre trained so extensive that it would be an asset for any school to have someone to go through that guardian program and be armed at a school. im all for it. any parent that says theyre against it, let them tell that to me if it was their daughter on the third floor waiting for someone to save them. >> of course, a lot of your fru...

Make sure it doesnt happen again. efforts going on in florida. so my interview now with parkland shooting victim meadow pollocks dad, andrew pollock on what he thought. >> im on a mission to make the school safer and im seeing it come full circle. the fruit of my work is -- im seeing whats happening and the kids in florida are going to be a lot safer come the start of the school year and in other parts of the country. neil: now, this guardian program, i guess, that started in volusia county, you...

Went into douglas. his name was aaron feis. >> so we named it that and ive been a part of program since the beginning and now were putting men to work, veterans and retired law enforcement in polk county. this is the first academy in the state of florida to go through this guardian program and im very proud to be a part of this and my hats off to sheriff grady to getting it done and to the polk county deputies. neil: im thinking of the law for the person who was armed and didnt go into the schoo...

Doesnt suspend ar-15 sales. a lot of people are thinking its pretty minor. rick scott didnt use his line item veto to reject the funding of a $67 million guardian program that would allow some teachers to volunteer to carry guns after undergoing 132 hours of firearms and 12 hours of diversity training. earlier this week florida senators tweaked the bill and scott added that he talked to legislators about rediverting funds to employ more law enforcement officers and said if he vetoed the bill, th...

Steve: the florida state legislature has passed some gun control bills. the bill creates, among other things, a risk protection order allowing police to confiscate guns of people who are involuntarily committed under the baker act or pose a violent threat to themselves and others and also has a guardian program where certain members of teaching staff or faculty might be able to carry guns. whats your reaction to what florida has done? >> well, you know, i always support school districts and teac...

Callisburg high school who ask we not identify them. >> i feel protected. i dont feel lake theyre going to threaten me in any way. i know if someone came in, i know theyre going to handle it. >> i feel really safe knowing that i can, like, come to school and if theres, like, an incident that does happen, that theyll be able to, like, protect us. >> reporter: out of the roughly 1,000 school districts across the state of texas, there are about 170 that have a policy of allowing teachers or adminis...