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116TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. RES. 231 

Keeping guns out of classrooms. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

MARCH 14, 2019 

Mrs. HAYES (for herself, Mr. SCOTT of Virginia, Mr. NADLER, Mr. DEUTCH, 

and Ms. DELAURO) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and in addition to the 

Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined 

by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall 

within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 

RESOLUTION 

Keeping guns out of classrooms. 

Whereas Congress has consistently made clear that it is unlawful for Federal funds to be used for training or arming school personnel with firearms; 

Whereas Congress passed the STOP School Violence Act of 

2018 (title V of division S of Public Law 115–141) in 

response to the shooting in Parkland, Florida, and 

amended part AA of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (34 U.S.C. 10551 et 

seq.) to specify that ‘‘No amounts provided as a grant 

[for school security under such part] may be used for the 

provision to any person of a firearm or training in the 

use of a firearm.’’; 


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Whereas section 4102 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7113), as added by section 

4101 of the Every Student Succeeds Act (Public Law 

114–95; 129 Stat. 1970), defines drug and violence prevention in schools as including the ‘‘creation . . . of a 

school environment that is free of weapons’’; 

Whereas existing research demonstrates that training or arming school personnel with firearms will not make schools 

safer; 

Whereas an analysis by the Federal Bureau of Investigation 

of active shooters between 2000 and 2013 found that 

trained law enforcement suffered casualties in 21 of the 

45 incidents in which officers engaged the shooter to end 

the threat; 

Whereas a survey of gun violence on school campuses showed 

that out of 225 incidents of gun violence between 1999 

and 2018, trained armed personnel or school resource officers failed to disarm an active shooter 223 times; 

Whereas proposed and existing programs to train or arm 

school personnel with firearms require significantly less 

training than law enforcement officers receive; 

Whereas research demonstrates that increased gun access 

and possession are not associated with protection from violence and a greater prevalence of guns increases the 

likelihood of gun violence; 

Whereas a greater prevalence of guns in schools creates 

undue risk of students gaining unauthorized access to 

firearms and the potential for unintentional shootings 

and school staff using guns in situations that do not warrant lethal force; 


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Whereas students of color, students with disabilities, and 

other vulnerable groups would experience a disparate impact of programs that arm school personnel as those students are disproportionately disciplined and arrested; 

Whereas heightened policing within public school spaces decreases a student’s sense of safety and the associated anticipation of violence leads to increased anxiety, fear, and 

depression; 

Whereas 73 percent of teachers in the United States do not 

want to carry guns in school and 58 percent say arming 

personnel would make schools less safe, according to a 

Gallup poll from March 2018; 

Whereas the majority of parents of school-aged children oppose arming school personnel, according to surveys; 

Whereas, as of March 2019, there is no evidence supporting 

the value of arming school personnel; 

Whereas the broad consensus among participants in the listening tour for the final report of the Federal Commission on School Safety released in December 2018 was 

disagreement with programs that would arm school personnel, according to transcripts; and 

Whereas, in that final report, the Department of Education 

endorsed the use of Federal funds to train personnel to 

use firearms: Now, therefore, be it 

1 Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Rep2 resentatives that Federal funds shall not be used to train 

3 or arm school personnel with firearms. 

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