You're asking for trouble, let kids learn in peace in an environment that doesn't remind them of a prison. Other countries don't have the same issues we do with school shootings, maybe security in our schools isn't causing this issue.

Guns and children don't mix. How many times must this country learn this lesson.

Guns only escalate situations. Also cops have a bad record of shooting black schoolchildren when "provoked". I don't see how this bill makes anyone safer.

Absolutely not. This would cause 10 problems for every one it could potentially solve. The GOP needs to start coming up with some actual solutions to our country's problems if they want to govern.

Guns do not belong anywhere near schools. Police officers do not belong near schools. How many videos do we need to see of students of color being assaulted in their classrooms to know this is a horrible idea? Awful, dangerous and unacceptable idea.

No no no. No guns around kids. No guns around schools. Whose half-wit idea was this?!

weapons shouldn't be anywhere within a hundred miles of our classrooms, whether those weapons are held by "well-intentioned" wannabe heros, or by criminals seeking to do harm. no good thing can blast from the barrel of a gun within school grounds. it only makes an area more hostile, more likely to produce casualties, and less safe, less peaceful.

Guns seem to be some kind of fix all. The idea of having an armed society to keep us safe from the bad guys is very troubling. I do believe our schools are most vulnerable areas and our youth should be protected. What my concerns are have to do with this hatefull rhetoric that is represented by those that want things their way. Our president promotes violence from those very people. This whole idea is a very slippery slope.

I really just feel like schools should always remain a gun free zone. As a student I feel safer the less guns are in my school as apposed to more.

Giving guns to retired cops (who probably retired not only for the money but also because they were "burnt-out" by the job) is an open invitation for them to shoot more black children. This law would most likely be invoked in states where the (often video-recorded) deaths of innocent black people most frequently occur, and this bill looks suspiciously like a license to kill. How about pepper spray, noise devices, low-level tasers, or even some kind of low-harm-risk "bee-bee" gun? There has got to be a technological answer to this that doesn't include killing. And what about trying some innovative behavioral programs that are geared toward changing the school culture from one of animosity and us vs. them, to one of compassion and mutual understanding? The problem is due to clashing cultures, one oppressed and one oppressing, and that is what needs to be addressed. Guns and killings just make things worse.