RALEIGH (WTVD) -- On Thursday, Governor Roy Cooper announced that he wants to spend $130 million dollars to help keep students and school personnel safe in North Carolina.
"We cannot afford to wait on Washington to act on school safety, we need to keep guns out of hands and off of our school campuses, and we have to provide our schools with funding to help keep our kids safe," Cooper said in a news conference Thursday.
Cooper's $130 million budget breakdown
This is the governor's latest act to help curb gun violence.
In March, he announced that he wants to strengthen the background check system and raise the legal age of sale of assault weapons to age 21.
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