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10551 et seq.) to specify that ‘‘[n]o amounts provided as 
a grant [for school security under that part] may be used 
for the provision to any person of a firearm or training 
in the use of a firearm’’; 
Whereas section 4102 of the Elementary and Secondary Edu-
cation Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7112), as added by section 
4101 of the Every Student Succeeds Act (Public Law 
114–95; 129 Stat. 1968), defines drug and violence pre-
vention in schools as including the ‘‘creation . . . of a 
school environment that is free of weapons’’; 
Whereas existing research demonstrates that arming school 
personnel with firearms or training such personnel to use 
firearms will not make schools safer; 
Whereas a recent analysis by the Federal Bureau of Inves-
tigation found that casualties for trained law enforcement 
during active shooter incidents increased from 2021 to 
2022; 
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 of-
ficers failed to disarm an active shooter 223 times; 
Whereas proposed and existing programs to arm school per-
sonnel with firearms or to train such personnel in the use 
of firearms provide significantly less training than law 
enforcement officers receive; 
Whereas research demonstrates that— 
(1) increased gun access and possession are not as-
sociated with protection from violence; and 
(2) a greater prevalence of guns increases the likeli-
hood of gun violence; 
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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 war-
rant lethal force; 
Whereas students of color, students with disabilities, and 
other vulnerable groups would experience a disparate im-
pact of programs that arm school personnel as those stu-
dents are disproportionately disciplined and arrested; 
Whereas heightened policing within public school spaces de-
creases the sense of safety of a student and the associ-
ated anticipation of violence leads to increased anxiety, 
fear, and depression; 
Whereas 54 percent of teachers in the United States believe 
carrying firearms will make schools less safe, according 
to a RAND Research Report from May 2023; 
Whereas the majority of parents of school-aged children op-
pose arming school personnel, according to surveys; 
Whereas the National Association of School Resource Offi-
cers, the National Education Association, and the Amer-
ican Federation of Teachers have all publicly opposed 
State-level policies to arm teachers and school personnel; 
Whereas, as of June 2024, there is no evidence supporting 
the value of arming school personnel; 
Whereas, before the enactment of the Bipartisan Safer Com-
munities Act (Public Law 117–159; 136 Stat. 1313), the 
December 2018 report of the Federal Commission on 
School Safety endorsed the use of Federal funds to train 
school personnel to use firearms even though, according 
to transcripts of the affiliated listening tour, the broad 
consensus among listening tour participants was dis-
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agreement with programs that would arm school per-
sonnel; and 
Whereas section 13401 of the Bipartisan Safer Communities 
Act (Public Law 117–159; 136 Stat. 1338) added a pro-
vision to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 
1965 (20 U.S.C. 6301 et seq.) that prohibits using funds 
under that Act to provide any person with a dangerous 
weapon or training in the use of a dangerous weapon: 
Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Rep-
resentatives that Federal funds should not be used to arm 
school personnel with firearms or to train such personnel 
in the use of firearms. 
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