A Georgia lawmaker wants to pay teachers $10,000 a year to carry a gun at school, UpNorthLive reported.
Georgia Lt. Gov. Burt Jones' legislative push also demands new funding to hire police-certified school resource officers and calls for stricter guidelines for school safety practices.
Jones argues the new law and extra funding would protect students and teachers in a nation where school shootings have spiked to nearly 300 incidents this year, according to numbers crunched by the K-12 School Shooting Database.
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“This legislation and associated state funding will ensure that our school systems and teachers have the necessary resources and training to increase safety across Georgia," Jones said.
According to a national survey released in May by the nonpartisan RAND Corporation research center, four out of five teachers disagree.
“Only 5 percent of teachers overall selected gun violence as their largest safety concern,” said report author Heather L. Schwartz. “Bullying, not active shooters, was teachers' most common top safety concern, followed by fights and drugs.”
