According to Peter Foster, The Telegraph, teachers have
flocked to a Utah firearms training programme to teach them how to tackle an
armed assault like the Sandy Hook elementary massacre that left 20 children and
six teachers dead earlier this month.
More than 200 teachers responded to the course offered by
the Utah Shooting Sports Council came a week after the National Rifle
Association, the powerful national gun lobby group, launched a highly
controversial campaign to put armed guards in every school in America.
"I'm thinking this would be a great opportunity to
protect the children and protect the teachers if that opportunity arose. That's
the reason I'm here," Stephen Pratt, a third grade teacher who was one of
the 200 to get a space, told a local television channel…..
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http://www.businessinsider.com/utah-teachers-flocked-to-gun-training-2012-12#ixzz2GNEJbmxb
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