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Tuesday, October 17, 2006

More Guns Less Crime?

Fox News

In a culture of school shootings and other violence on campus β€” a man in Utah thinks he has a partial solution. So while the State Education Association held its convention in Salt Lake City over the weekend β€”he offered public school employees a class to help them get a concealed weapons permit. Clark Aposhian told the Deseret Morning News that he had about two dozen people sign up for the class.

While federal law prohibits weapons at schools β€” Utah law says schools cannot prevent people with concealed-weapons permits from packing heat.

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