Wisconsin school boards could opt to allow licensed school staff to carry concealed firearms under a new bill being circulated by a pair of Republican lawmakers.

The bill — co-authored by Rep. Scott Allen (R-Waukesha) and Sen. Cory Tomczyk (R-Mosinee) — follows a resurgence of national calls to address gun violence after a school shooting in Nashville, Tennessee, where three kids and three adults were killed and a mass shooting this week in Louisville, Kentucky, that left six people dead and eight people injured. There have been 147 mass shootings this year as of April 12, according to the Gun Violence Archive. 

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