As an educator and parent, I believe we need to do all we can to prevent gun violence in our schools. We have more guns than people in the United States today and children should not pay the price for weak gun laws. We must come together to keep firearms out of our school buildings. Here is my four point plan to do so.
- Better safe storage laws so that people are required to store firearms safely in the home away from children.
- Increased criminal and civil liability for people who allow kids access to firearms.
- More frequent communication from schools about the rules around firearms and safe storage information for families.
- More school staff to support student mental health and safety as well as increased funding for training assistant principals, who are essential to school safety.
After returning from the legislative session in Richmond, I made it a priority to check in with citizens in the Richneck Elementary area to see how they were doing after the school shooting. Of course I heard a lot about keeping our children safe at school. Because of these conversations, I’ve researched policies that could prevent such a tragedy from happening again and have developed a Four Point Plan for School Safety which you can read on my website. As an educator and parent, I believe we need to do all we can to prevent gun violence in our schools. We have more guns than people in the United States today and children should not pay the price for weak gun storage laws. We must come together to keep firearms out of our school buildings. There are things we can do in our community to keep our children safe from gun violence including improving safe storage laws so that people are required to store firearms safely in the home away from children. We can also increase criminal and civil liability for people who allow kids access to firearms. Our schools need to prioritize more frequent communication from schools about the rules around firearms and safe storage information for families. Finally, we need more school staff to support student mental health and safety and we need to increase training and professional development for Assistant Principals, who are essential to safety in schools.