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Guns on display in 2023 at Caso’s Gun-A-Rama in Jersey City, New Jersey. (Aristide Economopoulos/for NJ Monitor) It’s enough to make a grown man cry. And one of my friends did just that during a recent school board meeting here in Rapid City as he was trying to offer public comment about a pending board decision on guns in schools.

Yes, guns in schools. How’s that for dissonance? Remember those “What doesn’t belong?” elementary school exercises where you look for things in a picture that don’t belong there? How about guns in schools? They don’t belong there. Kids belong in schools.



Books and teachers belong. PE and reading and math and, well, you know, all the things that fit in the school picture. But guns? In schools? Who thinks that’s a good idea, unless you’re talking about a very limited number of guns in the hands of trained law-enforcement officers? Well, the 2024 South Dakota Legislature more guns in schools was a very good idea.

By wide vote margins — 31-3 in the Senate and 62-8 in the House — lawmakers passed with a title that read: “An act to expand certain privileges for individuals who hold an unrestricted enhanced concealed carry permit.” And the expansion of certain privileges? That’s where the guns come in. The guns in schools.

Prior to approval of Senate Bill 203, which was signed by the governor, only trained law-enforcement officers and designated school “ ” were authorized to carry firearms in public schools. And the senti.

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