<span class="bold">Dear Editor:</span></p><p>Missouri House Rep. Rick Brattin has co-sponsored a bill that would permit teachers and administrators to carry concealed firearms in schools (H.B. 70). </p><p>This bill was filed soon after the massacre in Newtown, Conn. </p><p>As a teacher and a parent of a school-aged child, I strongly oppose this bill and hope that you will join me and others who stand in opposition to it. </p><p>The solution to gun violence in our schools is not more guns I would remind you that Neil Gardner, a 15-year veteran of the Jefferson County, Colorado, Sheriff&#x2019;s Office, fired four shots at and missed Eric Harris, one of the assailants of the 1999 Columbine High School shooting. </p><p>Harris then continued with his murderous rampage. </p><p>The solution of armed guards in schools proposed by the NRA and extended to teachers and administrators in H.B. 70 would be ineffective and counterproductive &#x2014; making our schools more dangerous and less conducive to learning. </p><p>Please urge your representative to reconsider and to withdraw his sponsorship of this bill.</p><p>X</p><p> <span class="italic">Ron Scrogham</span></p><p> <span class="italic">Kansas City</span>