Utah: 200 Teachers Turn Up For Free Gun Training Following Newtown School Shooting…
doofiegirl POTL~PWCM~JLA
2012/12/29 16:33:57
Of course if the Dems get their way the teachers won’t have access to anything more powerful than a muzzleloader.
(Reuters) – Kasey Hansen, a special education teacher from Salt Lake City, Utah, says she would take a bullet for any of her students, but if faced with a gunman threatening her class, she would rather be able to shoot back.
On Thursday, she was one of 200 Utah teachers who flocked to an indoor sports arena for free instruction in the handling of firearms by gun activists who say armed educators might have a chance at thwarting deadly shooting rampages in their schools.
The event was organized by the Utah Shooting Sports Council in response to the mass shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, this month that killed 20 children and six staff members at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
The council said it has typically attracted about 16 teachers each year to its concealed carry training courses. But Thursday’s event near Salt Lake City, organized especially for educators in the aftermath of Newtown, drew interest from hundreds, and the class was capped at 200 for space limitations.
“I feel like I would take a bullet for any student in the school district,” Hansen, a special education teacher in a Salt Lake City school district, told Reuters after the training session.
“If we should ever face a shooter like the one in Connecticut, I’m fully prepared to respond with my firearm,” she said, adding that she planned to buy a weapon soon and take it to work. http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/12/28/us-usa-guns-teacher...
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☆Warthog - PWCM - JLA☆ 2012/12/29 16:51:28
I'm glad that training was offered free, and these BS gun-free school zones are being lifted in some places.
The police don't have to come when you call 911.
The government has no duty to protect you. Police officers can only enforce laws after they are broken, and may take too long to come and rescue you from the person breaking into your house. Thought crime doesn't exist - so thinking about hurting you is not illegal, but doing it is, and you can only arrest people after they've hurt you, or after they've tried to hurt you and someone stopped them.
With regard to the point that police officers are (legitimately) reactors and not proactors, I agree 100% there, too. Not only would the attempt to prevent crime by watching and fore-judging people be an ineffectual waste, it would turn the country into a giant prison.
A security force of armed plain clothes retired police officers that rotate through the schools and are alert to any threats or potential violence would be better.
Teachers should be teaching, and it is more likely that a teacher with a weapon would put it in a locked drawer in her purse rather than have it available. That would also make the gun a target for some students to see if they can steal it.
Who's to say an unbalanced teacher won't go bananas on us one day.
God Bless these 200 teachers who refuse to forget it is WE, THE PEOPLE who are most responsible for the protection of our Country.... our children! It certainly would work far better than a teacher falsely believing that standing in between a CRAZY person and her student will save the child! And it would NOT take 20 minutes for the cops to show up.... but the simple pulling a key out of a purse to unlock the trigger of her gun!