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More than half of K-12 teachers say carrying firearms in school would make kids less safe: survey
CBSN
A newly published survey says 54% of teachers believe carrying firearms in school would make kids less safe. Still, 19% said they would be interested in carrying a gun to school, according to the RAND Corporation's survey of K-12 teachers — which would equate to more than 550,000 of the nation's 3 million K-12 teachers.
The remaining 26% said it would neither make schools more or less safe, according to the survey of 973 K-12 teachers conducted by RAND, a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization, between October and November 2022.
In 2022 alone there were 51 school shootings that resulted in injuries or deaths, according to Education Week, an education news publication.
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