{"id":2917,"date":"2013-01-07T11:48:19","date_gmt":"2013-01-07T16:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=2917"},"modified":"2013-01-07T11:48:19","modified_gmt":"2013-01-07T16:48:19","slug":"600-teachers-apply-to-learn-how-to-shoot-a-gun-at-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2013\/01\/600-teachers-apply-to-learn-how-to-shoot-a-gun-at-school\/","title":{"rendered":"600 Teachers Apply to Learn How to Shoot a Gun at School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2013\/01\/600-teachers-apply-to-learn-how-to-shoot-a-gun-at-school\/c6b1d67066e5ad79b757b42017f8c1b8\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2918\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-2918\" alt=\"handgun\" src=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/c6b1d67066e5ad79b757b42017f8c1b8.jpg\" width=\"288\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/c6b1d67066e5ad79b757b42017f8c1b8.jpg 450w, http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/c6b1d67066e5ad79b757b42017f8c1b8-300x233.jpg 300w, http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/c6b1d67066e5ad79b757b42017f8c1b8-150x116.jpg 150w, http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/c6b1d67066e5ad79b757b42017f8c1b8-400x311.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 288px) 100vw, 288px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As of this Wednesday, over 600 teachers from 15 states have applied for a free firearms training program that a gun advocacy group, the Buckeye Firearms Association, announced it would sponsor in the wake of the Newtown school shooting. The three-day training will train teachers how to wield firearms in the case of a school shooting.<\/p>\n<p>According to a press release, the association hopes to use the training as a starting point for a more refined, ongoing &#8220;Armed Teacher&#8221; curriculum. The first training will take place this spring at an Ohio training facility.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE:<\/strong>\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/mojo\/2013\/01\/teachers-apply-learn-shoot-guns-school-buckeye\" target=\"_blank\">600 Teachers Apply to Learn How to Shoot a Gun at School | Mother Jones<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As of this Wednesday, over 600 teachers from 15 states have applied for a free firearms training program that a gun advocacy group, the Buckeye Firearms Association, announced it would sponsor in the wake of the Newtown school shooting. The three-day training will train teachers how to wield firearms in the case of a school&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,22],"tags":[1599,81,82,1600],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2917"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2917"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2920,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2917\/revisions\/2920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}