Eric Burlison Co-Sponsors Bill to Allow Missouri Teachers to Conceal and Carry in the Classroom

It's a fact the media doesn't want told. Conceal and carry laws lower crime. When criminals must face a threat of the greatest kind of resistance to their actions, they are less likely to commit the crime. Republican Eric Burlison must understand this.

The News-Leader reports:


Missouri teachers would be allowed to carry concealed weapons in classrooms under a bill prefiled in the General Assembly Tuesday.

The bill comes less than a week after 26 people — including 20 children — were killed by a gunman at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.

Rep. Mike Kelley, R-Lamar, prefiled the bill. Rep. Eric Burlison, R-Springfield, is one of several co-sponsors.

“You don’t create a safe environment by banning guns from an area. All you’re doing is creating an area that is a focal point for criminals with guns to concentrate,” Burlison said.

Of course, statistics show he is right. Chicago has the strictest gun control laws in the country, and they have one of the highest crime rates as well.