Already, President Obama has made curbing gun rights a legislative priority, and his administration has limited the rights of certain veterans, people with various medical diagnoses and users of marijuana in states where possession is legal.
In yet another challenge to the Second Amendment, an insurance company has refused to provide its products to schools that want to protect students by arming teachers or staff members.
Now, the EMC Insurance Cos., which insures many Kansas schools, has announced it will not cover any school in which certain defensive measures are taken to protect students, such as teachers carrying concealed weapons.
“We understand that the school districts have every right to decide which way they want to go,” a company vice president in Wichita told the Topeka Capital-Journal.
“But we have to make the decision based on what we perceive to be our best financial interest.”
A new state law allows teachers and other workers to carry guns on school grounds under some circumstances. Previously, only police officers were allowed to be armed.
It all comes in the wake of the Sandy Hook school shooting last fall in which a troubled gunman shot and killed 20 children. The tragedy has been used by the Obama administration to push for more gun bans, while Second Amendment advocates point out that nothing has changed. Schools where guns are banned become instant killing zones when a deranged person attacks, they argue.
EMC, which insures about 90 percent of the state’s 286 school districts, has issued a letter to its agents explaining that teachers carrying concealed weapons won’t be allowed by the company.
The letter is available on the Capital-Journal’s website.
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