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Local News
5:15 am
Mon February 11, 2013

Should Teachers Train To Fight Shooters?

Credit Ben Bradford/WFAE
Another instructor strips Ken Glenn of a rubber pistol, in a demonstration of how to disarm a gunman.

A Gaston County martial arts instructor held a seminar a week ago for teachers about how to respond in a school shooting. First grade teachers, school nurses, and administrators practiced how to defend a classroom should a shooter try to enter, and how to fight back. Similar events have been popping up across the country, run by martial arts gyms, firearms training centers, and even schools, in the wake of Sandy Hook.

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