The 15-member commission investigating a Florida high school shooting last year on Wednesday released a recommendation that teachers be permitted to carry guns on schools’ campuses.
In a 446-page report, approved unanimously, the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Commission said that teachers should be allowed to volunteer to undergo training so they could carry guns at school, the Associated Press reported.
The report also details what the committee believes happened leading up to, during, and following the Feb. 14, 2018 mass shooting, when a lone gunman killed 17 people and left 17 others wounded.
Republican Gov. Rick Scott and his GOP successor, Gov.-elect Ron DeSantis, as well as the Florida legislature, will have to approve the commission’s proposal that would allow teachers to carry guns at schools in the state.
AP reports that the teachers’ union and Parent Teacher Association oppose the commission’s recommendations.
