Proponents for making Kentucky schools safer are wanting to help schools that can't afford school resource officers or sorrows.

Their plan would let military veterans or retired police serve as armed security.

That's if the General Assembly passes Senate Bill two.

We discuss the bill's pros and cons last night on Kentucky tonight.

Backers say it will make students and staff and faculty feel more safe.

But critics say the bill takes the wrong approach to school safety.

We cannot, in our opinion, as moms, demand action.

This is based on the evidence that we have that you can't protect yourself out of this problem, that we have to focus on a different avenue, which is to do things like to require secure storage of guns that gun owners need to securely store their guns.

We know that many of the school shooters are the school shooters actually in Kentucky got their guns at home or at the home of a relative.

And many times those guns are not securely stored and that could prevent those guns from ever making it to the school.

If the adults who actually have control of those guns, we also think that we could pass legislation that would help to remove firearms from temporarily, from people that we know are in danger to themselves or others.

As an SRO, I have I've seen thousands of students and I have never had a student tell me that they felt less safe because I was there with a weapon.

I know this and I've said this several, several times to administrators and people that I just come in contact with.

Students are never going to learn math in English until they feel safe and they feel loved.

Okay.

And again, I've never had a student tell me he feels less safe because I'm in the room.

I think it's quite the opposite.

And I've had that experience with students.

I think people feel safer when they know that there's somebody there that's willing and capable and committed to taking an act of violence on themselves so that they can be protected.

And let's just for the record, set it straight that you are favor in favor of guardians in schools.

Yes, I've been on both sides of that argument.

There was a time where I thought that the only people who could be in a school with the weapon is is a certified police officer like myself.

And then we run into the situation where we're hundreds of SRO short in the state of Kentucky, where we can either get funding or we don't have enough qualified applicants.

And then I started thinking, like with Senator, why is there I said, you know, there is somebody who can.

There has to be people out there who are willing and committed to the mission and can and are capable doing this job.

A comment on this.

You can hear more, including comments from the bill's sponsor, State Senator Max Wise, and a critic of the bill, State Senator Reggie Thomas.

That program is online and on demand at CD dawg slash k y tonight.