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michigandem58

(1,044 posts) Thu Dec 27, 2012, 08:29 PM Dec 2012

Gun group offers training for Utah teachers [View all]

Source: Houston Chronicle

WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah (AP) — Jessica Fiveash sees nothing wrong with arming teachers. She's one herself, and learned Thursday how to safely use her 9 mm Ruger with a laser sight.

"If we have the ability to stop something, we should do it," said the elementary school teacher, who along with nearly 200 other teachers in Utah took six hours of free gun training offered by the state's leading gun lobby.

It is among the latest efforts to arm or train teachers to confront assailants after a gunman killed his mother and then went on a rampage through Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., killing 20 children and six adults before killing himself.

Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/Gun-group-offers-training-for-Utah-teachers-4148166.php

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Gun group offers training for Utah teachers [View all] michigandem58 Dec 2012 OP

The gun laws in Utah are quite relaxed ProgressiveProfessor Dec 2012 #1

Oh Great, a pro-gun lobbying organization spreading their propaganda. Hoyt Dec 2012 #2

What could possibly go wrong? Coyotl Dec 2012 #3

Because personal sidearms are just like nukes? PavePusher Dec 2012 #5

Because school personel are all so unequivocally sane and could never go over the edge Coyotl Dec 2012 #6

^^^THIS^^^ cleanhippie Dec 2012 #8

Don't hold your breath.... PavePusher Dec 2012 #10

I've gotten so tired of the hysterical, nonsensical hyperbole masquerading as a coherent cleanhippie Dec 2012 #11

No hyperbole there! Coyotl Dec 2012 #12

when they toss around the word HYPERBOLE Skittles Dec 2012 #13

School teachers have exactly the types of background checks that pro-restrictionists wail for. PavePusher Dec 2012 #9

Like teacher are not human beings. n/t AlphaCentauri Dec 2012 #4

Exactly. How do we know who will be exposed to the wrong substances and flip out? Coyotl Dec 2012 #7

So what do YOU propose Lurks Often Dec 2012 #14

If guns make schools safer, when will they arm all the children? Logical extension Coyotl Dec 2012 #15

The armed security/police are already in the schools Lurks Often Dec 2012 #16