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A bipartisan group of senators led by Chris Murphy, D-Conn., and John Cornyn, R-Texas, unveiled their proposal over the weekend, which would include incentives for states to pass red-flag laws, funding for school safety and mental health resources, expanded background checks and more.
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Administrators are reexamining the designs of school buildings to protect students from an active shooter. "How are we gonna design these schools to where we can educate children and they’re pleasant places to be in where a child doesn’t think, ‘Gosh I go to prison every day,' " says one security consultant.
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A similar Florida law mandates 12 hours of diversity training before firearm approval. But Ohio lawmakers say they didn’t consider bias "whatsoever."
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As of June 13, Ohio gun owners will no longer have to apply with a sheriff to carry a concealed gun in public. The loosening of gun laws in Ohio is coming as the country grapples with mass shootings and a bipartisan group of U.S. senators have announced a deal for school safety and gun measures.
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DeWine 'looks forward to signing' bill lowering training requirements for armed personnel in schoolsHouse Bill 99 allows teachers, staff and volunteers to carry weapons with 24 hours of training, down from more than 700 hours in current law. It comes less than a week after 19 children and two teachers were gunned down in locked classrooms in an elementary school in Texas, with armed law enforcement officers standing outside.
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On Monday, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine signed the permit-less concealed carry bill into law. He says he was fulfilling a campaign promise, but he handed the Democrats who want his job a campaign issue they can run on.
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Gov. Mike DeWine says there are measures in the legislature that can help reduce gun violence while noting that the permit-less carry bill he signed into law is simply "consistent" with the U.S. Constitution.
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DeWine was in a precarious position with this bill as he faces three Republican primary challengers, all of whom are more supportive of relaxing gun regulations.
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Charmaine McGuffey says Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine "is going to be held responsible for gun violence" that could result from the passage of bill 215, which would allow Ohioans to carry concealed weapons without a permit or training requirements.
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The families of people killed in a 2019 mass shooting in Dayton have filed a lawsuit against the manufacturer of the ammunition used by the shooter.