State Sen. Brent Taylor urges schools to stay mum on lack of guns
“I said all of these school systems that come out and say, ‘We’re opposed to this. We are not going to have any armed teachers in our schools’ — please stop saying that,” state Sen. Brent Taylor (R-Eads) told the Whitehaven Republican Club Thursday, May 23. (Bill Dries/Daily Memphian)
Republican state Senator Brent Taylor told a group of 50 at the Whitehaven Republican Club that school leaders should “keep quiet” about not using a state law that allows for teachers to carry guns at schools.
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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for more than 40 years.
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