Translated from Portuguese by Francisco
Vianna
Kasey Hansen, a special
education teacher from Salt Lake City, Utah, said she would take a bullet to
defend any of her pupils, but if she were before a gunned individual
threatening her classroom pupils, she would have guts enough to react by
shooting it.
Last Thursday, she was one of
the 200 teachers from Utah who got together at a sport arena to be drilling on
how to handle and use firearms, taught by pro-arms groups. These activists say
armed educators might have a good chance of preventing fatal and aleatory
shootouts in schools.
Teacher learns how to make use of a gunfire at a school in West Valley City, Utah, in the western USA. Photo: George Frey/Getty Images/AFP |
This event was organized by
the Sportive Shot Council of Utah, two weeks after the Newtown massacre, in the
last 14th. In the carnage, a 20 years old mad guy shot and killed 20 children
and six employees of the Sandy Hook School, in Connecticut.
The Council says that normally
attracts some 16 teachers per year to its courses on the handling and use of
handguns personal firearms, which all citizens have a right to possess and bear
as privately or discretely in public, according to the 2nd Amendment to the
American Constitution.
But the Thursday’s (27th)
event near Salt Lake City, organized especially for teachers after the Newtown
massacre in Connecticut, has attracted attention of hundreds of people, and the
class was restrict for only 200 of them owing to room limitation.
"I feel able to catch a
bullet to defend any pupil into the school district", asserted Kasey, a
teacher on special education at a school of a Salt Lake City district, who
talked to Reuters after the training session. "If, any time further, I
have to confront a shooter like that one in Connecticut, I’ll be sheer ready
and prepared to stop him with my firearm", she said, adding that she plans
to purchase her own gun soon and take it to her workplace.
DEBATE
The Newtown massacre reignited
a longstanding national debate over armed security. President Barack Obama
signaled that he’ll support to a legislation that might prohibit possession and
bearing of assault heavy guns like rifles and machineguns and appealed to the
Congress to act out.
The National Rifle Association
(NRA) defended the deployment of gunned guards in schools and rebuked new
prohibitive measures designed to control personal firearms. The National
Education Association and some school sector’s authorities criticized NRA’s
attitude, but defenders of arms received a warm reception in many parts of the
Western USA, where hunting and arm bearers are a majority.
Utah is still one of the few
States where bearing a firearm is allowed to general public including into
school facilities, according the National Conference of State Legislatures.
In Arizona, the Public
Attorney Tom Horne entered the debate, last Wednesday, over school security by
proposing a permit to any school to start drilling its staff and Director on
how to deal, handle and use personal defensive firearms.
The plan, provided that being
supported by at least three teachers, will demand the State Congress’s approval
as well as the Republican Governor’s Jan Brewer one.
From Reuters – Translated from
Portuguese by Francisco Vianna,
December 28, 2012
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