{"id":33393,"date":"2012-12-27T10:44:39","date_gmt":"2012-12-27T14:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=33393"},"modified":"2012-12-27T10:44:39","modified_gmt":"2012-12-27T14:44:39","slug":"utah-teachers-to-pack-gun-training-seminar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=33393","title":{"rendered":"Utah teachers to pack gun training seminar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/group-offers-free-weapons-training-for-utah-teachers-in-wake-of-connecticut-school-shootings\/2012\/12\/26\/074d3704-4f83-11e2-835b-02f92c0daa43_story.html\">The Washington Post<\/a> reports that about 200 teachers will pack a free six-hour seminar so that they can arm themselves and protect the children who are in their charge;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Utah Shooting Sports Council said it normally gathers a dozen teachers every year for instruction that\u2019s required to legally carry a concealed weapon in public places. The state\u2019s leading gun lobby decided to offer teachers the training at no charge to encourage turnout, and it worked.<\/p>\n<p>Organizers who initially capped attendance at 200 were exceeding that number by Wednesday and scrambling to accommodate an overflow crowd.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, because it&#8217;s the Post, and the Post is vehemently opposed to guns, they have to find the best opposition they can find to finish their article;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Utah educators say they would ban guns if they could and have no way of knowing how many teachers are armed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a terrible idea,\u201d said Carol Lear, a chief lawyer for the Utah Office of Education, who argues teachers could be overpowered for their guns or misfire or cause an accidental shooting. \u201cIt\u2019s a horrible, terrible, no-good, rotten idea.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Carol Lear is brilliant and gives such a good explanation for her position that I can&#8217;t help but agree. That was sarcasm, by the way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post reports that about 200 teachers will pack a free six-hour seminar so that &hellip; <a title=\"Utah teachers to pack gun training seminar\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=33393\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Utah teachers to pack gun training seminar<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}