An annual state budget ritual in Annapolis turned to the hot topic of gun control Wednesday as school officials from Washington’s Maryland suburbs offered starkly different views on shoring up campus security after last month’s massacre in Newtown, Conn.

The typically monotonous, day-long hearing of local budget requests turned tense when Montgomery County Superintendent Joshua Starr and state Comptroller Peter Franchot (D) butted heads over armed guards in schools.

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