Issuance of weapons permits for school teachers in Tennessee, USA

According to the international group Tasnim News, the Tennessee House of Representatives passed a bill allowing teachers to carry concealed weapons in schools by a vote of 68 to 28. The state senate also approved this bill earlier this month.

According to this report, the state of Tennessee started discussions about this bill after last year’s school shooting in Nashville, which killed three students. But some democrats of this parliament started protests inside the parliament against this plan, which led to the phased suspension of the review of this bill since last year.

Republicans and many other conservatives have often called for arming teachers in response to multiple school shootings across the country over the past 25 years. Years have passed. Supporters of this bill believe that armed teachers will prevent school shootings, but opponents believe that the presence of guns in Madras will probably only lead to horrific random shootings.

The Gifford Legal Center, a gun safety group, said about half of US states allow teachers or other school staff to allowed to carry weapons in the school environment.

According to the approved bill In Tennessee, anyone who wants to carry a concealed weapon at school must complete at least 40 hours of training as a school police officer. The cost of training with weapons must be paid by the teacher himself.

Also According to this bill, the identity of teachers or staff who carry weapons will not be revealed, school administrators must also approve the teacher who wants to carry weapons, and local law enforcement officers must also know the identity of those carrying weapons.

while The US Supreme Court decides on the control of laws related to a type of hand-made weapon known as “ghost weapons”.While the government of Biden is fighting the dramatic increase in the use of these untraceable weapons in crimes across the country.

Ghost weapons are a kind of handmade weapons that people can buy a kit and easily in a short period of time by connecting its various parts together. Also, make a deadly weapon without serial number and untraceable.

The rise of armed violence in America is such that every week we see bloody shootings in some part of the United States. These shootings in public places such as schools, shopping malls and churches have increased dramatically. Many of these crimes were committed with these types of weapons.

It is said that the high number of mass shootings in America has caused public anxiety and insecurity and has led to many political discussions. has started Critics accuse pro-gun Republican extremists of treacherous collaboration with the gun lobby.

In recent years, anti-gun lobby groups have of course gained influence in America , but at the top of politics, because The balance of power in the Senate and systemic limitations, not much has been done yet. So the Republicans are still on the side of the gun owners and the Democrats are getting nowhere with their projects. Some say, Biden could simply issue executive orders, or declare a public health emergency, and take countermeasures given the toll of gun violence. However, in both cases, this would be easy to undo and the next election is only a few months away.

National Rifle Association of America ( NRA) is one of the most powerful non-military organizations in this country that drives the interests of gun owners and those who deem it necessary.

The association may have lost some of its influence in recent years and may not be as financially powerful as it was in 2016, when it spent about $54 million on the presidential campaign. But the gun lobby and its supporters have since invested about $33 million in the 2020 presidential election. One of their main goals is to prevent stricter laws against gun owners.

In this situation, the ruling Democrats are particularly in favor of strict gun laws, in While the Republicans are against it. But the majority of American political representatives are against building a legislative wall in the US Senate against this issue. To implement such a project, a 60% majority in Congress is required, which does not exist.

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