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Guns in classrooms: Colorado school district to train and arm teachers
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Colorado school district to allow teachers to arm themselves
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Guns in classrooms: Colorado school district to train and arm teachers

Posted: 15 Dec 2016 08:42 AM PST

A Colorado school district has voted to allow teachers to carry concealed weapons, following a growing number of schools that have made educators an integral part of their school security policies. It's a rural district 30 miles southeast of Colorado Springs, where law enforcement can take between 20 and 30 minutes to arrive if anything happens. This debate has played out in dozens of school districts in the four years since an armed intruder shot 20 students and six employees at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. On Dec. 14, 2012.

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Colorado school district to allow teachers to arm themselves

Posted: 15 Dec 2016 01:27 AM PST

DENVER (AP) — A rural Colorado school district decided to allow its teachers and other school staff to carry guns on campus to protect students.