UTAH Utah bill encouraging teachers to get firearms training, carry on campus passes legislature

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https://www.foxnews.com/politics/utah-bill-encouraging-teachers-firearms-training-carry-campus-passes-legislature

Utah’s House Bill 119 would establish the "Educator-Protector Program," which would include state-funded training to incentivize teachers to responsibly secure or carry a firearm on school grounds.

Under the measure, teachers who hold a valid concealed carry permit can participate for free in an annual program training them to defend their classrooms against active threats and to safely store, carry, load and unload firearms in a school setting.

Participating teachers would be expected to attend the free training course on an annual basis

Instructors appointed by county sheriffs would lead the training, which, according to the bill, would cost the Department of Public Safety about $100,000 annually.

Clark Aposhian, a member of the Utah Shooting Sports Council, told FOX13 Salt Lake City that the bill is "a logical next step" since those with concealed carry permits in Utah can already carry firearms in schools.

"But what this does is incentivizes additional very specific classroom type training for defense of a classroom," Aposhian said, adding that teachers are the "first engagers" during a school shooting.

Brian Peterson, a sixth-grade teacher at Lake Ridge Elementary School in Magna, told The Associated Press that the training would be "invaluable."

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I would encourage everyone to get firearm training, you will to protect yourself when the government comes for you.