The rule approved by the local Congress, controlled by the Republican Party, establishes a training period of 24 hours
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The Congress of the US state of Ohio approved allowing teachers to carry firearms after a 24-hour training period .
The text of House Bill 99 passed by the Republican Party-controlled Ohio Congress is optional, so it will be each educational center that decides if it accepts it, according to the Cleveland affiliate of the ABC network.
At least 4 of the 24 hours of training will be “stage-based” or simulated training exercises without specifying that real weapons can be used in this “tactical training with firearms”. Users of these weapons will undergo an annual background check.
The law also includes an annual review of the training of a maximum of eight hours and the creation of the Ohio School Safety and Crisis Center to develop the training agenda.
Until now, a teacher had to become a peacekeeper with more than 700 hours of training to be able to carry a weapon. A police officer receives 60 hours of training on firearms, of which 46 are in the shooting range.
The law has been definitively approved with 54 Republican votes in favor, 31 Democratic votes and two Republican votes against. Up to twelve congressmen have not voted.
Groups such as Mothers for Accountability, Mothers Demand Measures, the Ohio Educational Association or the Fraternal Ohio Police Order have warned that this new law will make schools much less safe (EFE/EPA/CRISTOBAL HERRERA/File )
Groups like Mothers for Accountability, Mothers Demand Action, the Ohio Educational Association or the Ohio Fraternal Order of Police have warned that this new law will make schools much less secure.
For the Buckeye Firearms Association it will be the opposite. “We have learned over time that the more quickly an active killer is attacked, the more lives are saved,” said a spokesman for the group, Rob Sexton.
The bill was finalized 10 days after a teenager with an AR-15-style rifle attacked a school in Uvalde, Texas. Nineteen students and two teachers died in the massacre.
The governor of Ohio, Republican Mike DeWine, announced that he will sign the bill< /b>, which was designed to defuse a ruling last year by the Ohio Supreme Court that said a longstanding state law required teachers to complete more than 700 hours in a peace officer training program before may be armed on school grounds.
Under the new law, school districts would have to notify parents if they decide to allow armed teachers onto campuses. school facilities. It was not immediately clear how many school districts would choose to allow it.
(With information from Europa Press and Reuters)