Teachers in Ohio and Texas seem to be taking the NRA’s advice and flocking to free gun classes. 900 teachers and school employees in Ohio took part in Buckeye Firearms Association’s newly established 3-day gun training gun training program, the association reported. 

"Any teacher who is licensed and chooses to be armed should be able to be armed," Gerald Valentino, co-founder of the Buckeye Firearms Association said to Reuters. "It should be every teacher's choice."

And in Texas 400 open spaces at a Concealed Handgun License course offered for free to teachers quickly filled up. 

Since the tragic December 14 massacre at Sandy Hook elementary school in Connecticut gun control has become a highly contested issue. Proponents of gun control say it will make classrooms and the streets safer, where as opponents of gun control believe that the right for civilians and teachers to own guns would have helped to ameliorate such tragedies. 

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