The suggestion led a white Republican to claim that Jones was slandering teachers. “What happens when that teacher,” Jones asked, “feels threatened?”Quick to the trigger, a teacher could then point to the state’s “stand your ground” defense, he reasoned. “I didn’t hear anybody call teachers racists,” state Rep. Fentrice Driskell of Tampa bluntly observedJones had harsher words for his colleagues. But allowing classrooms teachers to carry guns — following screening and instruction from local sheriffs — is deeply divisive. And Florida voters oppose allowing trained teachers to arm themselves, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released in March.

Source: Washington Post May 02, 2019 09:51 UTC