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Elementary School Teachers Shot With Fake Bullets During Active Shooter Drill
The Cut ^ | March 20, 2019 | Kimberly Truong

Posted on 03/22/2019 12:52:17 AM PDT by Norski

Several Indiana elementary school teachers are claiming that they were left with welts, bruises, and abrasions after an active shooter training drill in January — during which they were allegedly shot at repeatedly with plastic pellets without warning.

Two anonymous teachers in Monticello told IndyStar that for the training, teachers were asked by local law enforcement to kneel down against a classroom wall, before being shot across their backs with airsoft guns.

“They told us, ‘This is what happens if you just cower and do nothing,’” one of the teachers said. “They shot all of us across our backs. I was hit four times. It hurt so bad.”

On Wednesday, the Indiana State Teachers Association called for educator and student safety to be addressed in active shooter drills at schools, tweeting that it had heard from members of the association who were injured during a recent training.

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To: Norski

I’ve been shot with these. I still have a scar where one found a very small opening in my protective gear. I was bleeding profusely. If someone shot me with one of these without my knowledge or consent, they’d be on the ground.


21 posted on 03/22/2019 3:48:02 AM PDT by thefactor (yes, as a matter of fact, i DID only read the excerpt)
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To: OrangeHoof

“I’m not going to make it easy for him. I’m going to J.J. Watt his ass in an attempt to save some lives.”...…….

Well, a noble thought but obviously you have never been held a gun point. Just saying...……...


22 posted on 03/22/2019 3:49:27 AM PDT by DaveA37
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To: Norski

>These teachers did not volunteer to be shot with Airsoft rounds or paintballs ...

White County sheriff Bill Brooks, whose department led the training in question, told IndyStar that teachers “all knew they could be” shot...


23 posted on 03/22/2019 4:16:33 AM PDT by Do_Tar (To my NSA handler: Just kidding.)
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To: mabarker1

shoulda turned round and slugged one of them


24 posted on 03/22/2019 4:23:10 AM PDT by Chode ( WeÂ’re America, Bitch!)
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To: Norski

“Gail Zeheralis, director of government relations for the ISTA, asked lawmakers to alter a school-safety bill to add language prohibiting teachers from being shot with any sort of ammunition.”

Oh, butch up, candypants.


25 posted on 03/22/2019 4:24:24 AM PDT by dsc (Our system of government cannot survive one-party control of communications.)
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To: Norski

>>>‘This is what happens if you just cower and do nothing,’” one of the teachers said.

What are our expectation for teachers if we arm them? If shots are heard in a hallway outside a classroom, are armed teachers expected to engage the shooter or should they stay with the class to help defend the students? If they stay with the students are they cowering?


26 posted on 03/22/2019 4:53:38 AM PDT by oincobx
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To: Norski

Dad was a marine. Dad told me never point a gun at anything you didn’t care to destroy. The lessons started with my first daisyBB Gun. Then I went off down the creek with a similarly armed buddy to hunt various small fauna. Ran across a couple of kids from the same summer efficiency resort. They were likewise armed. They shot first.

All training didn’t completely go out the window. It appears there were ground rules. Don’t aim above the waste.

I got some nasty welts and blood blisters. It was wrong…but it was war of sorts. Kids war.

These pantywaists need a little sting to wake up to reality.


27 posted on 03/22/2019 5:03:03 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you .)
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To: Norski

Airsoft [snicker]…I would have drilled them with a paintball gun.


28 posted on 03/22/2019 5:21:00 AM PDT by farming pharmer
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To: Norski

“They told us, ‘This is what happens if you just cower and do nothing,’” one of the teachers said. “They shot all of us across our backs. I was hit four times. It hurt so bad.”

Mostly it was the truth that hurt so bad to liberal pukes.


29 posted on 03/22/2019 5:25:09 AM PDT by Beagle8U (Lil Debby Slobbercow is Michigan's NPC.)
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To: akalinin

A Crossman powermaster with one pump.


30 posted on 03/22/2019 5:29:57 AM PDT by Beagle8U (Lil Debby Slobbercow is Michigan's NPC.)
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To: Norski

“They told us, ‘This is what happens if you just cower and do nothing,’”

So let the teachers carry and return fire.


31 posted on 03/22/2019 5:40:48 AM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: Norski

Honest to God, I think these morons would tell an active shooter if they don’t stop, the TEACHERS UNION will SUE them!!


32 posted on 03/22/2019 5:45:23 AM PDT by VideoPaul
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To: oincobx

I believe the schools that arm their staff consider it to be a defensive option.

Obviously, the situation will dictate the response, but I don’t believe the thoughts are for the armed teacher to abandon his class to seek out the shooter.


33 posted on 03/22/2019 5:46:15 AM PDT by offduty
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To: Beagle8U
A Crossman powermaster with one pump.

When I was in junior high, tales abounded about Crossman bb gun fights on the weekends. It was all fun and games until the judge's kid caught one upside the head and needed some minor surgery to extract it.
34 posted on 03/22/2019 5:50:51 AM PDT by farming pharmer
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To: Norski

Multiple calls for a bogus shooting, the NZ muzzies already seemed to be piled up in a big ball in the corner BEFORE the gunman ever started shooting?

THATS WHAT VICTIMS LOOK LIKE WHEN THEY “SHELTER IN PLACE”.

Stacked up like cordwood, defenceless and ready to be slaughtered.


35 posted on 03/22/2019 5:57:56 AM PDT by Delta 21
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To: Norski

Their backs were turned. A little welt and some hurt pride, maybe they’ll remember if the real thing ever comes along.


36 posted on 03/22/2019 5:58:59 AM PDT by Bulwyf
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To: Norski

While the value of the training my be questionable, whether or not they “volunteered” is irrelevant. A school shooter will not ask, “OK, all those willing to get shot, line up over here.”


37 posted on 03/22/2019 6:02:03 AM PDT by nuke_road_warrior (Making the world safe for nuclear power for over 20 years)
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To: Beagle8U
Coulda been worse.


38 posted on 03/22/2019 6:05:24 AM PDT by Delta 21
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To: Norski

i wonder if the teachers fought back, would they be charged with assaulting a police officer, because i would have thumped the mother sucker... and taken the pellet hits... even paintballs would not have prevented me from thwarting the punk...

after i wrestled the “gun” from him i would empty the clip and then beat him over the head with it.

the “shooter” could have just said, “lie down, you are all now dead because you chose to not fight.”

but the welts bring it home.

buwahahahaha


39 posted on 03/22/2019 6:13:59 AM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
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To: Norski

Don’t cower then, ladies.


40 posted on 03/22/2019 6:14:51 AM PDT by chris37 (No wall? No vote.)
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