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How US Teachers Were Quietly Trained To Carry Guns Into School by chido2018: 5:06am On Jul 02, 2018
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Source:http://www.captaindoz.com.ng/2018/07/how-us-teachers-were-quietly-trained-to.html

When Donald Trump proposed arming teachers to deter school shooters, the overwhelming response from educators was horror. Yet teachers in Colorado are taking action to carry concealed guns to school.
The non-profit group FASTER, set up after 20 small children were killed in 2012 at Sandy Hook Elementary School, has trained more than 1,300 US school staff, mostly in Ohio, on how to use a handgun in the event of a school shooting.
Sixty-three of them have been trained in Colorado, home to the 1999 Columbine High School shooting. The swing state has a Democratic governor and both a Democrat and a Republican in the US Senate.
"I think it's scary to people to bring a weapon into school," conceded Katie, a first-grade teacher in Jefferson County, west of state capital Denver, who declined to give her second name.
"They just see the bad side, not the positive side of how guns can save people," the 27-year-old told AFP.
She was a student this week at the three-day, $1,000 course in Commerce City outside Denver.
The United States is the only developed country in the world that suffers relentless school shootings with roughly one a week, according to Everytown for Gun Safety, a group working to restrict firearms.
America's gun violence epidemic kills around 33,000 people each year. More than 214,000 students have experienced a school shooting in the United States since 1999, according to a Washington Post database.
As shootings multiply and Congress remains paralysed, FASTER saw an uptick in business, even before President Donald Trump supported arming


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teachers in the wake of a Valentine's Day massacre in Florida.
Re: How US Teachers Were Quietly Trained To Carry Guns Into School by MANNABBQGRILLS: 5:12am On Jul 02, 2018
I know it will come to this someday...
Re: How US Teachers Were Quietly Trained To Carry Guns Into School by orisa37: 5:33am On Jul 02, 2018
Good.
Re: How US Teachers Were Quietly Trained To Carry Guns Into School by ugomsinachibia: 6:38am On Jul 02, 2018
Kk
Re: How US Teachers Were Quietly Trained To Carry Guns Into School by DaV8King(m): 9:34am On Jul 02, 2018
Naija now, the teachers go turn am into c....................

Re: How US Teachers Were Quietly Trained To Carry Guns Into School by Ojiofor: 9:49am On Jul 02, 2018
Farmers should be allowed to carry gun in Nigeria too.

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