{"id":100523,"date":"2024-03-05T21:22:51","date_gmt":"2024-03-06T03:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=100523"},"modified":"2024-03-05T21:22:51","modified_gmt":"2024-03-06T03:22:51","slug":"100523","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=100523","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Gun Control Advocates Urge Utah Gov. to Deny Funds to Train Teachers for Armed Classroom Defense<\/a><\/p>\n

Gun control activists are urging Utah Gov. Spencer Cox (R) to reject a bill that would fund training for teachers who want to be armed for classroom defense.<\/p>\n

The Associated Press\u00a0reported<\/a> that gun control activists gathered at the Utah State Capitol on Monday to pressure Cox to reject the funding bill.<\/p>\n

On March 1, 2024, Breitbart News noted<\/a> that two pieces of legislation \u2014 one aimed at arming teachers in particular and the second at allowing school employees other than teachers to be armed \u2014 passed the legislature and were headed to Cox\u2019s desk.<\/p>\n

The bill aimed at teachers puts in place funding to provide free training for teachers with concealed carry permits who want to be able to defend their students and themselves in the event of an attack.<\/p>\n

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Christy Belt, Timpanogos Academy fifth-grade teacher, engages in an exercise, designed to help teachers make good decisions in active shooter incidents, at the Utah County Sheriff\u2019s Office shooting range on June 29, 2019. (AP Photo\/Rick Bowmer, File)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The AP pointed out that legislation provides a \u201cfree\u2026annual program training them to defend their classrooms against active threats and to safely store, carry, load and unload firearms in a school setting.\u201d<\/p>\n

The bill sponsor, State Rep.\u00a0Tim Jimenez (R), responded to criticism by stressing that the goal of armed teachers is to provide a \u201cstrictly defensive\u201d response to would-be school attackers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gun Control Advocates Urge Utah Gov. to Deny Funds to Train Teachers for Armed Classroom Defense Gun control activists are urging Utah Gov. Spencer Cox (R) to reject a bill that would fund training for teachers who want to be armed for classroom defense. The Associated Press\u00a0reported that gun control activists gathered at the Utah … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,9,29,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-schools","category-enemies-foreign-domestic","category-safety","category-self-defense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=100523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100524,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100523\/revisions\/100524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=100523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=100523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=100523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}