Colorado teachers will not be carrying concealed weapons at schools any time soon.
In Senate committee on Monday, Colorado Democrats rejected a Republican bill that would allow teachers to carry concealed weapons on school grounds. The Denver Post reports that Republicans made the argument that children would be safer in school if teachers could carry firearms and that another massacre like Sandy Hook could possibly be avoided, but state Democrats, who control the legislature, dismissed the notion and killed the bill. The bill falled on a 2-3 party line vote.
The vote on SB-9 came on the same day as more than 100 gun control supporters rallied in front of the state Capitol, including some politicians and Aurora shooting victims' family members like Dave Hoover, uncle of Aurora victim A.J. Boik, who called for tighter gun regulation. "I don't think it's difficult to ask that we have universal background checks, that we take these weapons of war off the streets," Hoover said at the rally, 9News reports.
Under current Colorado law, concealed weapons are prohibited at schools, but SB-9 would have changed that allowing school boards to give permission to teachers and other school employees to carry concealed weapons and require firearm training.
