House Bill 2588 which would allow teachers, administrators and other school employees to carry firearms on school campuses. The new bill would require that school personnel who wish to carry a firearm while on campus must possess a valid handgun license and met other requirements and criteria set forth by the board of education in their respective districts.
HB 2588 passed the House by a
(79-19) vote and will now head to the Senate.
Check out the official press release from the Oklahoma House of Representatives with some of the details and highlights below:
The bill lets the individual school boards, districts and administrators decide for themselves what their potential firearm polices will be and what those polices might entail. This isn't a statewide mandate or policy, instead it allows local schools and districts their own say and control over firearm/handgun policies. Within minutes, maybe even seconds after the House passed the bill all the usual hypothetical, hysterical, nightmare, unwarranted doomsday predictions started and have been echoed non-stop ever since.