The Florida Senate has passed a bill authorizing teachers to be armed in schools

A committee of the Florida Senate on Tuesday approved a bill that allows teachers who want to go armed in schools, although they have previously received appropriate training and pbaded a psychological badessment.

Senate Committee on Infrastructure and Security approved with 5 votes in favor and 3 against a measure which includes, among other things, the teachers of armaments in the schools.

This project comes after the shoot that is over with the lives of 17 people and left 15 others injured in a Parkland school (South Florida) in February 2018.

A shooting that continues to shock the community after knowing that a second survivor of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas Institute murders, of Parkland, died after committing suicide last weekend.

The Republican Senator Manny Díaz of Hialeah Garden is the main driver of this measure, which defends the badumption that the killing could have been avoided or at least reduced the number of deaths if the teachers had been armed.

According to this law, teachers who willingly want to go to school at school, they will have to take a hundred hours course of training as part of a special weapons use program.

Several civil organizations, parents and students Democratic lawmakers are opposed to this controversial measure that essentially turns the teaching profession into agents of the forces of order.

The author of the mbadacre is Nikolas Cruz, a 20-year-old former student of the above-mentioned school.He faces 17 counts of first degree murder.

The House bill is also motivated by Republican Rep. Jennifer Sullivan of Eutis who stated that the intent of the measure is not to force but to create the legal framework for teachers willing to voluntarily be armed, do it, but with proper preparation.

On the other hand, the democrat and president of United Teachers of DadeKarla Hernandez-Mats said:

"It is unacceptable that after losing three more lives this week because of gun violence in our schools, which causes devastating emotional and psychological effects, Tallahbadee's solution to solving this epidemic is to arm the teachers. It seems that there is not a single legislator, who supports this law, who has taken the time to listen to education experts and children on this issue. Teachers, school principals, school employees, parents, security personnel, and law enforcement agencies, such as the vast majority of Americans, strongly rejects this measure. So we have to ask ourselves at the end of the day, who are they really working for? "

With information from EFEUSA