With a state commission saying classroom teachers should be allowed to be armed “guardians,” Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday backed the possibility of more school employees being able to carry guns — while also calling for other steps to avoid mass shootings. 

It’s a story that is heard too often — and unnecessarily — in this country: Police in the Phoenix suburb of Tempe, Arizona, say a burglary suspect shot to death by an officer Tuesday was a 14-year-old boy carrying a replica gun. 

People on both sides of the gun control debate can at least agree safer guns are a good thing — can’t they? 

Deputies say a student managed to get loaded gun into Burke County Middle, a school that actually uses metal detectors. They’ve had metal detectors there for more than 20 years. 

Far fewer Americans fall victim to firearm accidents than some two decades ago, even though people own more guns, according to new data. 

if you want to address gun safety in this region, allow guns in schools and literally get them in the hands of children. At issue here is educating kids about firearms to put facts into their heads that otherwise will be filled with fears. 

President Donald Trump’s federal commission on school safety concluded in a report released Tuesday that raising the age to buy firearms probably wouldn’t stop the next school shooting because attackers often procure guns illegally. 

A majority of the Wyoming House of Representatives wants to do away with gun-free zones, including zones around schools and colleges. That means teachers, staff — anyone who obtains a concealed-carry permit — could bring a firearm into K-12 schools. 

Shayanne Nelson, 18, and Tyrell Bitsilly, 21, were charged with child abuse after Nelson’s young child found a gun in the room and accidentally fired it. The bullet hit an eight-month-old girl in the face.