In the wake of last year’s mass shooting at Texas’s Santa Fe High School, Gov. Greg Abbott released a plan to obviate future shooting by releasing a 40-page plan to keep schools safe.
Inhis plan, the governor suggested that arming school employees would help Texas schools prevent another massacre. As The Fort Worth Star-Telegram notes, if schools in the panhandle hope to arm their on-campus staff, they have two options.
First, schools can implement what’s known as “the Guardian Plan,” which lets employees be armed without any kind of marshall training. This plan also allows unlimited numbers of educators and staff to be armed.
The other option is the new state marshal program, which allows school boards to authorize one employee per school to carry a gun on campus. These staff members must be specially trained and licensed by the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement.