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Judi Lynn

(160,076 posts)
Tue Jun 24, 2014, 03:52 PM Jun 2014

Arming Missouri Teachers: Hugs Are No Longer Appropriate

06.23.14 - 10:07 PM

Arming Missouri Teachers: Hugs Are No Longer Appropriate

by Abby Zimet



Seeking to "empower" teachers as "the ultimate first responders," at least a dozen Missouri school districts are paying $17,500 for their teachers to get 40 hours of training on using a Glock 19 semi-automatic - "easy to handle, and it goes bang every time," explains the former state trooper who runs Shield Solutions' Active Shooter Intruder Response Training - for the next Sandy Hook. Little kids wanting to hug their beloved, secretly packing teachers could be problematic, he concedes. But it will be worth it to protect our children. Because with a newbie, freaked-out, ill-equipped educator suddenly called on to take split-second aim at a crazed shooter in a packed school full of skittering terrified kids, what could possibly go wrong?

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http://www.commondreams.org/further/2014/06/23-2

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Arming Missouri Teachers: Hugs Are No Longer Appropriate (Original Post) Judi Lynn Jun 2014 OP
Interesting. nt ZombieHorde Jun 2014 #1
How many iPads could $17,500 buy? femmocrat Jun 2014 #2
I find the phrase "ultimate first responders" in this context HIGHLY offensive. Thor_MN Jun 2014 #3
 

Thor_MN

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3. I find the phrase "ultimate first responders" in this context HIGHLY offensive.
Wed Jun 25, 2014, 07:34 AM
Jun 2014

"First Responders" do not take life.

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