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Politicians from Ohio are struggling with how to better protect children after a recent mass shooting at a school in Minneapolis, but members of each main political party have a different way to solve the problem.
On August 29, a police officer in Parma was stationed before St. Columbille, Catholic Primary School and Junior High School in the suburbs of Cleveland. School administrators called them to be very careful to ensure safety after the tragedy in Minnesota.
Two children died and 17 others were injured The shooter opened fire to the children’s prayerReigning the long -term debate on solving the problem of mass shootings in the country.
This is a terrible situation about which a former 30 -year -old teacher Sean Brennan could not speak without tears.
“It wasn’t something I thought about when I was undergoing a teacher’s preparation,” said Brennan. “When we became teachers, we did not sign up to think that we will have to potentially save our children from the shooter because of Pete.”
Brennan, currently a democratic state legislator representing Parma, said that the answer includes controls of the past and the provisions on the Red Flag.
“There must be some common restrictions on having weapons,” he said.
The fatal mass shooting of the city of Dayton in 2019 prompted the governor Mike Dewine to press on novel safety regulations, but the legislator dominated by Republicans never undertook them. On Thursday, WSPs asked the governor what to do now.
“We gathered a few years ago, in our Public Security Bureau, a really separate unit about safety at school – and that we could go to each school, evaluate,” said the governor. “We also have some money in which we can help schools () does not guarantee that we will never shoot there, but make sure that the school is prepared for everything.”
Ohio can cope better, he said, but he knows that he is standing uphill with his own party before the battle.
“Listen, I tried different things,” said Dewine. “And we didn’t go.”
What has passed includes security protocols that the state senator Jerry Cirino, R-Kirtland, said that you do not violate the second amendment, such as ensuring the financing of greater safety in religious buildings and enabling armed teachers in the classroom.
“We will have to ensure more safety,” said Cirino. “We will have to use available people: retired policemen, retired military people who are properly trained and checked.”
Cirino said that blaming the firearm is not a basic problem.
“Pistols are a method used by people who are psychologically handicapped, good?” Cirino said. “We must solve the basic problem, which is primarily a psychological disabilities.”
While other GOP leaders send a constitutional argument, Cirino focuses more on families of their relatives, including “parental responsibility for issuing potential problems and better monitoring their children and warning law enforcement agencies when there is something that there is something that is likely that it is very brutal.”
The Republican said that “would like to see” “closer restrictions” in terms of people who get a gun, maybe waiting longer.
Brennan said that both his and Cirino solutions should go together.
“It must be all arrows and a quarrel approach,” said Brennan.
Some democrats and supporters are now insisting on Constitutional amendment in order to determine the provisions on the safety of weapons.
Dewine said that he did not know what provisions he would call for at the moment, and Brennan expressed the disappointment that despite the repeated interest of the governor’s security, he signed every account that relaxes the restrictions of weapons sent to his desk.
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This article was Originally published on News5Cleveland.com and is published at the Ohio Capital Journal on the basis of a content division agreement. Unlike other OCJ articles, it is not available for free publication by other information service, because it is owned by WSPs at Cleveland.
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