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- A survivor of the Florida school shooting wrote an op-ed claiming that the training teachers received on active shooters six weeks before the shootings saved lives.
- A teacher interviewed shortly after the event confirmed that the training took place, and that things “could have been a lot worse” without it.
- President Donald Trump has come out against active shooter drills, calling them “crazy.”
As more personal accounts have emerged from the Parkland, Florida school shooting earlier this month in which 17 people were killed, students and teachers alike have touted the active-shooter training teachers received in the weeks before the shooting, and credited it with saving numerous lives during the massacre.
In a New York Times op-ed, Florida shooting survivor Carson Abt wrote that the teachers at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School were forces of calm amid the chaos of that day.See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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See Also:
- Trump says he would have run into the Florida school during the shooting even without a gun
- Henry Blodget: Will arming teachers with guns help stop school shootings?
- A tape delay in the Florida shooting security footage seems to have confused police as they were searching for the gunman
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