From a hilltop west of this Ozarks town, trees stretch to the end of the world and only the low rumble of far-off thunder breaks the morning quiet.
That is about to change.
“On the command of ‘gun’!” the chief instructor calls out. “Two steps to the left, three shots on target! One standing, one kneeling, one standing!”
The dozen or so schoolteachers, and one district’s bookkeeper, ready their trigger fingers.
“Gun!”
The teachers move left, an evasive sidestep — “stepping off the X,” it’s called. They yank the Glock 19s from their holsters and fire at metal targets 50 inches tall with painted faces at the tops, careful not to hit the innocents in front and behind.
Drop to a knee, fire. Stand up, fire. Scan for additional threats.
In the heartland of a nation worn raw by school shootings, these teachers are now students, learning how to kill an armed intruder.
Most of their bullets find the intended pings; a few kick up red dirt of a berm. It’s a process.
In the year and a half since the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary, as America has struggled to find the answer to its epidemic of school shootings, some districts have decided that teachers are the ultimate first responders and need to learn to shoot back.
Four Missouri school districts recently sent staffers to this hilltop range for five days of firearms training. The instructors, all current law enforcement officers, refer to the teachers’ “unique situation” — essentially close-quarters combat while youngsters scream and run about.
“You have to pick your environment apart,” Jason Long, a lieutenant with the Howell County sheriff’s office, stresses to the class.
So, are these teachers ready to pull the trigger on a shooter? How about if it’s a kid they’ve had in class?
“None of us would be here if we haven’t already answered that question,” one man said.Read the rest of the Story HERE.
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When are people going to learn to stop using "Sandy Hook" as a reason for anything? The whole Obama Admin has admitted that it was a HOAX, no children were killed, that it was an extreme training exercise, and the people were all actors! They OPENLY ADMITTED THAT, yet idiots that support gun grabbing keep referring to it as if it was true! People need to wake up and realize that it's not true and be mad at the Govt for even letting such a hoax to go public and scaring people into believing such lies!
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