Posted on 07/09/2017 5:10:30 AM PDT by george76
This fall, some Colorado teachers will return to school armed with knowledge—and guns.
Laura Carno, author of “Government Ruins Nearly Everything: Reclaiming Social Issues from Uncivil Servants,” is bringing advanced firearms training to school teachers.
“Can government stop school shooting[s]? The answer is no … How do we as a community keep our kids safer if we say government is not the right place to fix that problem?” Carno .
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Her answer is a training program called the Faculty/Administrator Safety Training and Emergency Response, or FASTER. Carno’s nonprofit Second Amendment advocacy group, Coloradans for Civil Liberties, planned to bring the program to Colorado teachers this summer.
The Program
FASTER trains school workers “not to replace police and EMT, but to allow teachers, administrators, and other personnel on-site to stop school violence rapidly and render medical aid immediately,” according to the FASTER website.
“The faster you stop the shooter, the faster you stop the bleeding, the fewer people die,” Carno said.
In Colorado, handguns are permitted on school grounds “in conformance with the policy of the employing agency,” according to the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence.
The workshops provide over 26 hours of training, and the curriculum is taught by career law enforcement professionals,
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A step in the right direction.
Old hat:
Nothin` new here up n the mountains
SCHOOLS ARE GUN ZONES
In 1800: “
“Children of the present day would be somewhat startled to go to school attended by large dogs, to keep off the bears and other wild animals, to study all day by the crackle of the great fire and back logs, to hear the howling of wolves at rollcall, and see the teacher take from its resting place over the door, a trusty rifle to guard the way home. Such were the first schools in 1800.”
‘Periwinkle’, “The Sentinel”, Feb 21, 1874 [”Ticonderoga Sentinel”, Ticonderoga, NY]
The real “first responders” are the people on the site of the insane attacks and the notion of running and hiding when the crazy killers aren’t going to stop until they are taken out will mean too many lives lost.
Although:
In Colorado, handguns are permitted on school grounds “in conformance with the policy of the employing agency,” according to the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence.
the districts most likely to be targeted are also the most likely to never allow trained teachers on campus.
Criminals prefer gun free zones with easy victims.
Really because all of my legal classes say no per federali regs. We can ccw unloaded (meaning round not chambered) when passing through but guns must stay locked in cars when going into building
Well, that is a good point, and needs to be addressed.
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