NBC Dubs Teachers With Handguns Useless Against ARs, Touts Baseball Bats

Posted • August 16, 2024: The State of Tennessee recently started their first school year under a new law that gave school districts and individual schools the ability to decide if they would allow their faculty and staff to carry a concealed firearm. And during a pearl-clutchy segment on Wednesday’s edition of NBC’s Today, the liberal network suggested that a handgun was effectively useless against an AR-15, but highlighted a teacher keeping a baseball bat in her classroom instead of a gun. Without citing her source, NBC anchor Kate Snow lead into her report by proclaiming “there have been more than 750 shootings on school campuses” (she may have gotten that figure from the Gun Violence Archive, which NewsBusters has debunked). https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2023/01/24/nets-push-deceptive-mass-shooting-stat-ignore-defensive-uses

“The new law sets up a lot of rules and training before a teacher or staff member could show up to school armed,” she reported. “But each school district and principal would need to approve.” And according to a teachers union, so far none have opted to adopt the policy. (…)

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