{"id":7318,"date":"2012-12-28T08:00:29","date_gmt":"2012-12-28T15:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/?p=7318"},"modified":"2017-02-08T22:21:07","modified_gmt":"2017-02-09T05:21:07","slug":"200-utah-teachers-expected-for-weapons-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/2012\/12\/200-utah-teachers-expected-for-weapons-training\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds of Utah Teachers Show Up for Weapons Training"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><figure id=\"attachment_7387\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7387\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/254\/2012\/12\/utahtrain.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-7387 \" title=\"utahtrain\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/254\/2012\/12\/utahtrain.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"594\" height=\"334\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7387\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dec. 27, 2012: Clark Aposhian, President of Utah Shooting Sport Council, demonstrates with a plastic gun during concealed-weapons training for 200 Utah teachers. (AP)<br>Read more: http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2012\/12\/28\/teachers-in-utah-ohio-get-free-gun-training\/#ixzz2GMPfmSzP<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>SALT LAKE CITY \u2013 Gun-rights advocates in Utah offered six hours of training Thursday in handling concealed weapons for hundreds of Utah teachers in the wake of the massacre in Newtown, Connecticut.<\/p>\n<p>The latest effort to arm teachers to confront school assailants was organized by the Utah Shooting Sports Council, which hosted the training session to help educators become eligible for concealed firearm permits, FOX 13 News reported.<\/p>\n<p>More than 200 teachers flocked to the training class in the Salt Lake City suburb of West Valley City. Raye Ann Blauer, a kindergarten teacher, told FOX 13 she is considering using her permit to carry a firearm at school.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[A]fter everything that happened in Connecticut, I want to be aware of how I can help in the classroom and protect my kids and whatnot. Be aware,\u201d Blauer said. \u201cI think it\u2019s really smart. Especially with everything that\u2019s happened lately.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>English teacher Kevin Leatherbarrow holds a license to carry a concealed weapon and doesn\u2019t see anything wrong with arming teachers in the aftermath of the deadly Connecticut school shooting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re sitting ducks,\u201d said Leatherbarrow, who works at a Utah charter school. \u201cYou don\u2019t have a chance in hell. You\u2019re dead \u2014 no ifs, ands or buts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In Ohio, a firearms group said it was launching a test program in tactical firearms training for 24 teachers. The Arizona attorney general is proposing a change to state law to allow an educator in each school to carry a gun. (Read more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2012\/12\/28\/teachers-in-utah-ohio-get-free-gun-training\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Read more: http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2012\/12\/28\/teachers-in-utah-ohio-get-free-gun-training\/#ixzz2GMPPg8JU<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SALT LAKE CITY \u2013 Gun-rights advocates in Utah offered six hours of training Thursday in handling concealed weapons for hundreds of Utah teachers in the wake of the massacre in Newtown, Connecticut. 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