One statement in the whole gun-control/Second Amendment debate that is likely undeniable is that a good person armed and trained with firearms has a better chance of protecting someone else from an attack than a good person without a weapon.
Now there’s a state legislature that is poised to advance that argument.
According to a report from Just the News, lawmakers in the Indiana House have adopted a plan that would allow teachers and staff members in schools to be trained with firearms.
House Bill 1177 would have the state pay for up to 40 hours of training from a qualified instructor, the report explained.
“The training would be strictly voluntary for the teachers and staff members, but the school board or charter school would need to approve it. Teachers at nonpublic schools would also be eligible for the training,” Just the News said.
Rep. Jim Lucas, who is sponsoring the plan, said it was simply common sense.
He said he’s worked with law enforcement interests and public safety consultants to put the idea together.
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“When faced with a life-or-death situation, simple drills and basic training can make all the difference. With this legislation, schools have the option to send their teachers through a state-certified course designed to teach them how to respond to a threat like an active-shooter situation,” he explained.
Schools in the state already have been given, over the past decade, some $133 million to cover their security improvement plans.
The bill does provide that if a teacher is on suspension, under investigation, or facing disciplinary action, they are not eligible for the program.
The plan now goes to the state Senate.
EDITOR’S NOTE: Long the world’s most Christian nation, America today is being taken over by a new “official” national religion, one being imposed on the entire populace by every major societal institution, from government, media and big tech, to academia, entertainment and business.
This new state religion is Wokeism. “Going woke” conjures up visions of someone claiming to be acutely sensitive (“awake”) to “systemic social and political injustice.” And not just alleged bigotry against blacks, but toward every other “minority” as well, from LGBT folk – especially everything transgender and “nonbinary” – to “undocumented immigrants.” All of them, being VICTIMS, intrinsically more virtuous than the shameful oppressor class: primarily heterosexual white males.
This new “woke” consciousness has turned America upside-down – from the nationwide Antifa and Black Lives Matter riots in 2020, to tearing down of historic monuments, to demanding multi-million-dollar reparation payments for blacks, to appointing transgenders as top government officials, to rampant reverse discrimination in every area of life, to the U.S. military imposing mandatory “diversity training” and transgender pronoun use on all personnel, causing recruitment to disastrously plummet.
Yet there is hope. Being “saved” – which in Wokeism is called being “woke” – is largely a matter of worshipping victimhood by becoming an “ally” and “defender” of all the many victim classes, and a determined enemy of the straight white male oppressor class. Thus, “joining the righteous” as an ally – even if one is cursed to be a straight white male – opens the door mercifully for salvation, even to the most wretched.
That is the power of the religion of Wokeism. And it’s explored as never before in the February 2023 issue of WND’s critically acclaimed monthly Whistleblower magazine. If you’ve ever wondered, for example, exactly how the most radical elements in American society are successfully pressuring the biggest corporations into adopting the most outrageous and immoral policies imaginable, even when doing so permanently damages and devalues the company, the stunning answers are in this issue of Whistleblower, titled “WOKEISM: AMERICA’S OFFICIAL STATE RELIGION.”
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