A vast majority of Texas school workers don’t want to be armed after the Uvalde school massacre, according to a teachers union poll released Wednesday.Some 77 percent of employees who participated in the Texas American Federation of Teachers poll said they didn’t want to be armed amid a push by some Republican lawmakers to “harden” schools with increased security, more officers or giving weapons to teachers.“Trying to arm teachers is risky and counterproductive,” union president Zeph Capo said in a statement. “Teachers can’t be expected to become highly-trained law enforcement officers and use guns in a crisis without endangering students or themselves.”
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