{"id":2473,"date":"2013-03-11T03:22:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-11T03:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2013\/03\/11\/more-interested-teachers-than-spots-in\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:21:17","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:21:17","slug":"more-interested-teachers-than-spots-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=2473","title":{"rendered":"More Interested Teachers Than Spots In Free CCW Class"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:14044,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.wsoctv.com\\\/news\\\/news\\\/local\\\/teachers-instructed-gun-safety-firing-range\\\/nWm9x&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20150412181350\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.wsoctv.com\\\/news\\\/news\\\/local\\\/teachers-instructed-gun-safety-firing-range\\\/nWm9x\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-19 23:42:08&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-26 11:10:20&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-03 05:50:58&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:true,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-03 05:50:58&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>\nThe Rowan County Wildlife Association thinks the way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. To help increase the number of good guys <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsoctv.com\/news\/news\/local\/teachers-instructed-gun-safety-firing-range\/nWm9x\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">they offered a free NC Concealed Handgun Permit class for teachers<\/a> on Saturday in the Salisbury, NC area. The good news is that they had a lot of interested teachers show up. The bad news is that they had to turn some away because they didn&#8217;t have enough room.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p>\n<i>Some of the teachers told Eyewitness News they were taking the class to help keep their students safe.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><br \/>\n&#8220;That&#8217;s why we are teachers, because we love the children we work with,&#8221; interim teacher Jordan Waller said.<\/p>\n<p>Waller joined dozens of other educators at the free concealed carry class in Salisbury.<\/p>\n<p>She sat next to Susan Smith, a teacher&#8217;s assistant, who worries about her students who have special needs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our children are not very mobile,&#8221; Smith said. &#8220;They would have a very hard time getting out of the way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Smith and Waller both support bills in the state Legislature that would allow teachers to carry weapons.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If that&#8217;s what the world is coming to, I&#8217;d go along with it,&#8221; Waller said.<\/i>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course as the report below makes clear, the gun prohibitionists at North Carolinians Against Gun Violence are aghast and resort to quoting junk research.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rowan County Wildlife Association thinks the way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[158,104,3232,3233],"class_list":["post-2473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-concealed-carry","tag-north-carolina","tag-rowan-county-wildlife-association","tag-teachers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8938,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2473\/revisions\/8938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}