Rick Perry tells tea party: Allow more guns in schools

Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) says that schools in his state will be safer when school districts are given the ability to allow staff to carry guns.

Speaking to a cheering crowd of Northeast Tarrant County Tea Party members on Monday, the Texas governor called last week’s shootings at an elementary school in Connecticut an evil act but insisted that new gun laws were not the answer.

“We have to do everything we can to make sure those types of evils are restricted the best they can be,” he explained. “One thing I hope I don’t see is knee-jerk reaction from Washington, where they come in and think they know the answers.