Heather Curtis
WMAL.com
WASHINGTON (WMAL) – The Loudoun County School Board’s scheduled to vote Tuesday on a gun violence prevention resolution. The resolution includes statistics on gun violence in schools, information about what LCPS is doing to keep kids safe, and asks legislators on all levels to come together to taken action to cut down on gun violence.
“We do need to state that we stand against gun violence in our schools,” board member Beth Huck said at a meeting March 13.
But board member Eric DeKenipp said President Donald Trump’s already proposed a number of measures to keep kids safe in schools, and the authors of the resolution need to reconcile those measures with what’s in their resolution.
“It’s [the resolution] redundant and from my perspective a waste of time,” DeKenipp said.
Board member Debbie Rose agreed the resolution needs to be amended. She questioned some of the statistics on gun violence in schools that are referenced in the resolution.
Rose added she’s confident that her kids will be safe when she sends them to school and applauded administrators for proactively developing security protocols and implementing security measures.
Board member Tom Marshall said even though he doesn’t usually back political resolutions, he supports this one because “sometimes you have to be political.”
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