California Republican Assemblyman Bill Essayli reintroduced a bill on Thursday that would require at least one armed school resource officer (SRO) on every public school campus in the state. Essayli is pushing the bill again after a crazed man shot and wounded two kindergartners in Oroville, California, on Wednesday.
Essayli’s introduction of Assembly Bill 68 comes after Democrats on the Assembly Education Committee shot down the same legislation earlier this year. The Republican assemblyman told The Daily Wire in a phone interview that he wants lawmakers to spend more time focusing on protecting children in schools.
“Every time one of these shootings happens, it just becomes a 24-hour news story and then goes away. We don’t ever do anything,” he said. “And then the two sides just blame each other. You’ve got Democrats blaming Republicans for not having more strict gun laws…
