Once again my state keeps demonstrating its sprint further into stupidity. Cops are supposed to be trained yet how many times do we hear that it took several cops firing a multitude of bullets to kill someone who was shooting at them. So, what happens when one of these open carry teachers accidentally kills a kid or when a kid steals the teacher’s gun and shoots somebody?Ohio appears to be the first state to purchase shoot houses – mobile homes designed for indoor firearms training – to better prepare public school staff “to respond to an active shooter”.
The Ohio controlling board, which helps oversee changes to the state budget, approved public safety officials’ request for $78,028 last month to purchase two shoot houses to help train public school employees that are allowed to carry firearms at work.
“Currently, we have movable canvas walls that can be configured to simulate responding to an active shooter in a school, like walking down a hallway, but there are limits,” said Jay Carey, a spokesperson for the Ohio department of public safety. “The more realistic we can make the training, the better prepared armed school staff will be to respond to an active shooter.”
Carey said the state is “looking to purchase” shoot houses because they “offer several advantages like doors and windows so armed school staff can practice opening doors and looking through windows just like they would find in a school”.
Though Ohio is still in the “early stages of procurement”, the shoot houses could be incorporated into teacher firearm training as early as this summer, Carey said.
The purchase of shoot houses is the latest in a string of wins for gun rights supporters in Ohio, who regularly and successfully seized on deadly mass shootings to loosen firearms restrictions in the state – especially inside classrooms. One of the largest expansions of Ohio gun rights came in 2022, after 19 children and two teachers were killed by a gunman at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. Ohio Republicans responded by lifting restrictions on school teachers, custodians and bus drivers from carrying firearms at work…….
Ohio to purchase mobile homes to train public school staff in firearms
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I'm not opposed to an excise tax, but 11% feels high. If you make it too high, you'll see a lot more black market gun sales, which doesn't help anything. I'd rather a lot of legitimate sales that can be tracked to legal owners than a lot of black market sales that can't be tracked.Starting in July 2024, California will be the first state to charge an excise tax on guns and ammunition. The new tax – an 11% levy on each sale – will come on top of federal excise taxes of 10% or 11% for firearms and California’s 6% sales tax.
The National Rifle Association has characterized California’s Gun Violence Prevention and School Safety Act as an affront to the constitution. But the reaction from the gun lobby and firearms manufacturers may hint at something else: the impact the measure, which is aimed at reducing gun violence, may have on sales.
As a professor who studies the economics of violence and illicit trades at the University of San Diego’s Kroc School of Peace Studies, I think this law could have important ramifications.
One way to think about it is to compare state tax policies on firearms with those on alcohol and tobacco products. It’s not for nothing that these all appear in the name of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, also known as ATF.……..
California is imposing a new tax on guns. Will it impact sales?
Beginning July, state will become the first to charge an 11% excise tax, on top of federal and sales taxes, with an aim to reduce gun violence
When the Covid-19 pandemic hit the US, it wasn’t just a deadly virus that swept the country. It also ushered in a period of unprecedented access to firearms.
New gun ownership surged, particularly in Black, Latino and Asian American communities, alongside rising anti-Asian hate crimes, police violence and a general climate of fear. In the past, spikes in gun purchases tended to occur in conservative states, in response to changes in gun policy.
“For the first time ever,” said Paul Nestadt, a suicide researcher and co-director of the Johns Hopkins suicide prevention working group, “there were more guns bought in blue states than red states.”
The devastating ripple effects of that spike in new gun ownership are now becoming apparent in rising firearm suicide rates among children and teens over the past four years. In 2022, nearly 27,000 people died by gun suicide – the highest on record – and young people of color bore the brunt of this hike. For the first time, the gun suicide rate among Black teens surpassed that among white teens. Firearm rates rose 63% among young Latinos and 71% among young Asian Americans over the past decade and a half, the latter being the largest growth of any racial or ethnic group.
The increase is driven as much by compounding racial trauma as unfettered access to firearms, suicide researchers and community organizers say. Informed prevention and intervention strategies, they said, should focus on destigmatizing mental illness and fostering an understanding that suicide isn’t just a mental health issue but also an impulsive act of violence.…….
Behind the alarming rise in US gun suicides among youth of color
Surging gun ownership and unaddressed racial trauma have contributed to an uptick in youth firearm suicides
I wonder instead if that might not be just another Guardian Gusher. I noticed right off that it was a Guardian article because it was a gusher.
I remember seeing those article as well, and I remember then wondering "where?, " back then.
www.cnn.comLock him up for the rest of his life.So tired of reading these kind of stories...
Teens went to a sporting goods store to return airsoft guns. An armed man fatally shot one in the back, authorities say | CNN
An armed man who “took it upon himself” to conduct surveillance outside a sporting goods store in suburban Seattle has been charged with murder after he fatally shot in the back a teenager who had an airsoft gun in his pocket, prosecutors said.
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