Eliminate Criminal Empowerment Zones at Schools

Are you as sick of hearing about nut cases walking into schools and unloading as I am?

Now there is something we can do about it.

Michigan House Bill 5162 may be our best bet yet.

Michigan schools are "pistol-free zones" according to state law. No law-abiding citizen with a CPL may carry a pistol into a school... although - surprise - mass murderers don't understand that both carrying in a school and premeditated murder are against the law. "Pistol-free zones" are simply criminal empowerment zones.

This bill essentially allows the principal of each school in Michigan to authorize CPL-holding school employees to carry concealed pistols on school property. The bill also allows Principals to require training above and beyond the necessary training to obtain a CPL under current law.

I know all the complaints against this kind of action, but once people realize we don't live in a Pollyanna world, I hope they will see this should protect their kids. Sure, it isn't a perfect bill, but it does at least plant some doubt in the minds of predators about whether school employees might be equipped to take action in case of an emergency. And it offers a chance for clear-thinking principals, faculty and staff to shoot back if required to in defense of students or themselves.

Our kids lives are worth protecting.