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Will These Gun-Toting Teachers Prevent Another Newtown? Posted: 09 Dec 2013 02:30 AM PST It wasn't quite cold enough to need a vest on a mid-November Texas morning, but Matt Dossey was wearing one anyway. Dossey is the superintendent at Jonesboro Independent School District, a compound of three low, pale-brick buildings sandwiched between broad oak trees in the back and a horse pasture across the road up front. Jonesboro is a tiny community nestled in the rolling Texas scrubland 110 miles north of Austin, but aside from the schools, a post office, and two churches, there's little to suggest a town. Jonesboro straddles the border between Coryell and Hamilton counties, and it's more than 15 miles to the nearest sheriff's department.

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