Missouri Legislature Overrides Governor Nixon’s Veto Of Bill Permitting Arming Teachers

By Elizabeth N

Governor Nixon originally vetoed SB 656, Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon (D) had originally vetoed the legislation that would have allowed vetted and trained teachers and school administrators to carry firearms on campus. The measure had passed the Republican-dominated state house by a strong 111-28 vote and the state senate in a 21-7 vote.

It was his opinion that, “Arming teachers will not make our schools safer,” Gov. Jay Nixon, a Democrat, said in a statement after rejecting the bill. “I cannot condone putting firearms in the hands of educators who should be focused on teaching our kids.”

Under the law, schools would have been allowed to appoint “school protection officers” from the staff who could receive concealed-weapons training and then bring such weapons to school. Currently, 11 other states allow those with concealed carry permits to bring guns to K-12 schools in some capacity. Read more Daily Caller

However, this story doesn't end here, because the Missouri Legislature disagreed with Nixon, and noticed that Israeli teachers do not suffer from school shootings, because their teachers openly carry in their classrooms. So, there must be something to this self-protection, so both chambers of the Missouri legislature took this veto up for vote.

Both chambers of the Missouri legislature this week accomplished an override of Democratic Governor Jay Nixon’s veto of a bill expanding both concealed and open carry rights at schools in the Show Me State.

The bill  provides for school boards to designate “one or more school teachers or administrators as a school protection officer” after holding a public hearing, requiring the employee to complete a MPOSTC-approved training program, and sharing all information about the resource officers with the state Department of Public Safety. It also provides criminal penalties if a school protection officer fails to secure his weapon while at work.

The Senate overturned Nixon on a partisan 23-8 vote. The House followed suit a day later, overriding the veto Thursday on a bipartisan 117-39 vote.

The bill also does a number of other things, as summarized by The Missouri Times’ Collin Reischman:

An omnibus bill dealing with firearms, Nixon vetoed this bill for it’s provisions allowing schools to designate and train a “school protection officer,” to legally carry a firearm on school property. The bill also lowers the minimum age for a CCW permit from 21 to 19. The bill also prohibits health care professionals from asking about requiring asking a patient about firearm ownership or recording and/or reporting such ownership to a government entity. 

The bill also addresses so-called “open carry” law.  Under the bill, local governments will not be able to prohibit CCW holders from engaging in open carry practices. Democratic Senators Scott Sifton and Jolie Justus spent nearly two hours discussing the bill in a semi-filibuster. The bill ultimately passed by a vote of 23-8 along party lines.

Let's see if any of the states follow the show-me-state and get our teachers to arm themselves.  Maybe then we'll see fewer school shootings, like Israel, because the thugs will think twice before bringing a gun to class, if they know they'll get their brains blown out, before they even get passed Mrs. Jones classroom.