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I was fortunate to be able to attend a three-day Faculty/Administrator Safety Training & Emergency Response (FASTER) class in August 2018. Here is an introduction to the life-saving training.

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Our major news networks have not signed up to the new media guidelines. Companies like ABC, MSNBC, PBS, NPR, CBS, and CNN have not signed on to any of the efforts to stop celebrity violence.

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Parents, school staff, and law enforcement officers are working together. They are slowly solving the complex and interrelated issues of protecting our students from armed murderers in our schools.

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School is about to start. Does your local school have trained first responders? The answer changes every day.

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I watched two dozen school staff train to save lives in a medical emergency. This is what they overcame.

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Arming teachers is more than a theory. Armed school staff are now a well-worn reality. We've trained over a thousand teachers and have over a thousand man-years of experience with armed school staff.

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Our distorted childhood memories are one of the largest issues we face when we talk about arming school staff.

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Solid facts are rare in the ocean of opinion about arming teachers. I asked the best sources I could find if school staff should be armed to protect our students. Their answer was clear.

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A school board in Lee County, Virginia voted to arm school staff. That makes 19 states with programs in place. Virginia law makes it unnecessarily difficult to arms school staff.

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I have not seen solid news reports about mass murders at our schools. We need to know how to protect our students. What can we do before and after a murder comes to school?

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Mass murderers kill our kids for simple reasons. Mass murder of innocents gives the murderer a powerful reward. Yes, murder pays. How many mass murders could you buy with $2 billion in publicity?

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School districts in three more states announced that they would arm school staff. The map keeps changing as more and more districts adopt a policy to allow some teachers and staff to go armed.

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