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To: marek_wojna who wrote (65131)	3/8/2001 1:37:48 PM
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OT <<I heard about town or city in US where carrying gun is mandatory and it has very low crime rate. Maybe one of the states should follow example and prove that possession>> Firearms Training School Is Offering Free Instruction For Teachers By Jim Burns CNS Senior Staff Writer March 07, 2001 (CNSNews.com) - The school shootings in California have prompted a Las Vegas-based firearms training institute to offer free gun training for school personnel. The Front Sight Firearms Training Institute said Wednesday they would offer free firearms training to any school administrator, teacher or full-time staff members. The school's director believes that training school personnel to use firearms will cut down school violence. However, the school has laid down ground rules. Applicants must submit a letter requesting training but the request must be on school district letterhead and signed by the top school district official. The applicant also must be designated as the school's safety monitor by the top school district official. "We had offered it previously after Columbine. We've trained a number of teachers since then, most of them from private schools. I'm sure we will hear from teachers on this offer, because it's the only real solution to the problem," Dr. Ignatius Piazza, Front Sight's director and founder told CNSNews.com Wednesday in a telephone interview. "Most [school] districts cannot afford to have even one full-time police officer in every school, but they can easily afford to train three or more of their selected staff members to a higher level of firearms training than offered in police academies because Front Sight will provide the training free," Piazza said. The American Federation of Teachers, one of America's largest teacher unions is not impressed with the idea, according to spokesman Darrell Capwell. "That sounds like an awfully frightening idea, actually. Arming more people is not the way to stop violence in schools. Having better ideas about what kind of students are susceptible to bringing weapons to the school, trying to prevent it before it happens, sounds like a much better idea than trying to escalate [violence] by putting more guns into the schools," Capwell said. The National Education Association doesn't like the idea either. "We don't subscribe to the notion that more guns in schools are going to make schools safer," NEA spokesman Michael Pons said. Piazza also said he understands that his offer may offend some school administrators and parents who do not see arming and training selected school staff members as a positive solution to violent attacks. "Teachers," Piazza adds, "will be trained to carry a concealed weapon, so potential attackers will not know which teachers are armed and which are not. In states that have adopted concealed weapons laws for private citizens, violent crime has dropped. School attacks will drop as well once it is known that (cont) cnsnews.com\Nation\archive\200103\NAT20010307b.html