Guns in schools plan raising questions, concern

The same day an estimated 1,000 people protested Florida's Stand Your Ground law, a plan to allow guns in schools made it through a Senate committee.

Senate Bill 968 would allow military veterans or retired police officers with concealed weapons and hours of special training to bring guns into Florida schools.

The plan was authored by Republican Alan Hays of Umatilla in central Florida. He says it's intended to prevent a massacre like Sandy Hook from happening in Florida.

But it faces opposition from the Florida School Boards Association and other parent groups.   We will be reaching out to local school distirict leaders to find out how they would apply this into law, if it gets that far.