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Insurance Companies Aren’t Excited About Armed Teachers in the Nation’s Schools

After the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary last December, NRA chief Wayne LaPierre offered his organization’s solution to the problem: Get the feds to put armed guards in every school. Turns out, that’s expensive. So some school districts decided to take the idea into their own hands. But, thanks to understandably cautious insurance companies, that’s expensive, too.

Despite Hefty Payouts, Fire Insurance Costs Hold Steady

The insurance industry is bracing to pay hundreds of millions of dollars in claims to people whose homes were destroyed in major forest fires. But with government policies that indirectly encourage building in high-risk areas, insurance premiums for those living in the woods are unlikely to rise much.