guns at school. now, we know that gun clubs are training people for free, but none of them can tell us just how many trainees are teachers. in fact, my staff spent the entire day trying to find one teacher in any of these states who would talk to us about this. hundreds of teachers are supposedly getting gun training, but we couldn t find a single teacher who would talk about it, not one. it s a little strange, isn t it? here is something we do know. more school districts are buying into the nra s so-called solution, armed offduty police officers are patrolling the middle school and elementary schools in marble bro, and last night staten island passed a resolution to post armed guards at schools there as well. i ve heard some of the comments tonight, people say we re putting guns in the schools. we re putting trained professionals. in the schools. administrators say there will be no armed guards in any new
sandy hook elementary school. they claim they re training hundreds of teachers to carry guns at school. now, we know that gun clubs are training people for free, but none of them can tell us just how many trainees are teachers. in fact, my staff spent the entire day trying to find one teacher in any of these states who would talk to us about this. hundreds of teachers are supposedly getting gun training, but we couldn t find a single teacher who would talk about it, not one. it s a little strange, isn t it? here is something we do know. more school districts are buying into the nra s so-called solution. armed offduty police officers are patrolling the middle school and elementary schools in marlboro, and last night staten island passed a resolution to post armed guards at schools there as well. i ve heard some of the comments tonight. people say we re putting guns in the schools. we re putting trained professionals in the schools. administrators say there will be no armed guards in
now, we know that gun clubs are training people for free, but none of them can tell us just how many trainees are teachers. in fact, my staff spent the entire day trying to find one teacher in any of these states who would talk to us about this. hundreds of teachers are supposedly getting gun training, but we couldn t find a single teacher who would talk about it, not one. it s a little strange, isn t it? here is something we do know. more school districts are buying into the nra s so-called solution. armed offduty police officers are patrolling the middle school and elementary schools in marlboro, and last night staten island passed a resolution to post armed guards at schools there as well. i ve heard some of the comments tonight. people say we re putting guns in the schools. we re putting trained professionals in the schools. administrators say there will be no armed guards in any new york city public schools. but districts in other parts of new york disagree. police have steppe
any circumstance? make no mistake, we re not talking about these folks doing tactical things inside a school against the shooter. we re encouraging them to institute the normal lockdown procedure which falls short when the shooter comes and crosses that threshold of a classroom. it doesn t take a lot of tactical training to produce otherwise discreetly maintained firearm and access to engage that shooter. that s a great option rather than putting yourself in front of the bullets. what teacher at sandy hook or columbine wouldn t have even with a little bit of training, wouldn t have had a firearm rather than put themselves in front of the bullet. just the extra option. you ve been offering gun training for a long time, i understand. are you surprised at all by the conflict in newtown? i was surprised, but it s completely understanda believe because people realize how vulnerable they are and what we need to be doing is projecting that position of security on our
priority for me. reporter: utah is one of few states where public schools allow guns on campus. but in the wake of the shooting at sandy hook, the push is on to add more states to that list. arizona s attorney general wants every school principal or the designee armed. in ohio, applications for one shooting course for teachers are up 20%. arming teachers is a lot like arming airline pilots. simply knowing that someone on campus might be carrying a gun could be enough to stop the bad guys. in 1997, an armed high school vice principal in mississippi did manage to stop a 16-year-old shooter on a rampage. but there was also columbine. 15 people died and the armed security guard on campus and another one nearby could not stop it. the nra s blanket call to arm our schools is really nothing more than a distraction. reporter: some teachers in utah say they want more gun training. and organizers are already planning another class for the next holiday break. cecilia vega, abc news, los