According to a recent poll conducted by the Public Policy Institute of California, the majority of Californians and public college kids may favor having an armed police officer patrol the school to defend students.
The poll found that 35 % of adults who responded said they were strongly supportive of the idea, 36 % said they were somewhat opposed, 17 % said they were somewhat opposed, and 11 % were completely opposed. Help is higher among kids in open schools. 279 people school families, out of which 1, 600 people, were polled.
Assembly Republican Leader James Gallagher, who co-authored AB 68, a bill that would install an military school resource officer at all, including all, California , schools, said,” It doesn’t shock me.” I frequently converse with people who claim that our schools require better protection, you know, right? I regret not knowing this.
According to the same study, about 7 in 10 people were concerned about a university killing that was taking place at their neighborhood.
Gallagher said he has been working on the issue since the 2017 shooting at his district’s Rancho Tehama Elementary School. He claimed that an equipped school resource officer could had intervened earlier to stop the shooter at the college Feather River Adventist School, which is also in his area, as well as in the shooting last year.
Despite the fact that the head of the , Committee on Education, and Assemblymember Al Muratsuchi, a Democrat, chose to abstain from giving it a hearing, Gallagher claims that AB 68 won’t be heard this time. Otherwise, it will be a two-year costs.
Gallagher allegedly canceled the costs after it became evident there would not be time for it to be heard this year, according to Muratsuchi’s business.
School tool officials are typically not a popular choice among those who support the use of weapons.
Everytown for Gun Safety states on its website that” School Resource Officers ( SROs ) don’t stop school shootings, but research has shown that SROs can harm students in various ways, including criminalizing typical youth and teen behavior.”
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