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** FILE ** A school bus rolls toward a memorial in Newtown, Conn., for victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting on Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
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**FILE** Penn State coach Joe Paterno smiles as he walks the field before an NCAA college football game against Minnesota in State College, Pa., on Oct. 17, 2009. (Associated Press)
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Rev. Mel Kawakami (center) of the Newtown United Methodist Church and Rabbi Shaul Praver (right) of Congregation Adath Israel in Newtown speak in Newtown, Conn., at an interfaith prayer vigil to remember the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings on Dec. 28, 2012, two weeks after a gunman killed 20 children and six educators at the school. (Associated Press/Danbury News-Times)
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**FILE** Pakistani students carve wooden statues in the National College of Arts in Lahore, Pakistan, on Dec. 6, 2012. (Associated Press)
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U.S. Army Sgt. Thomas Springsteen stands near a window to download music onto his phone during a class session at Montclair State University in Montclair, N.J., on Oct. 10, 2012. Springsteen is participating in a music class for service men and women that helps them cope with their life after the military through a program called Voices of Valor. (Associated Press)
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"It's a terrible idea. It's a horrible, terrible, no-good, rotten idea," Carol Lear, a chief lawyer for the Utah Office of Education, said of arming educators. (Associated Press)
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"It's a terrible idea. It's a horrible, terrible, no-good, rotten idea," Carol Lear, a chief lawyer for the Utah Office of Education, said of arming educators. (Associated Press)
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Stephen Pratt, a third-grade teacher from Alpine, Utah, is fingerprinted for a gun carry permit Dec. 27, 2012, during concealed-weapons training for 200 Utah teachers in West Valley City, Utah. The Utah Shooting Sports Council offered six hours of training in handling concealed weapons in the latest effort to arm teachers to confront school assailants. (Associated Press)
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Clark Aposhian, president of Utah Shooting Sport Council, demonstrates with a plastic gun Dec. 27, 2012, during concealed-weapons training for 200 Utah teachers in West Valley City, Utah. The Utah Shooting Sports Council offered six hours of training in handling concealed weapons in the latest effort to arm teachers to confront school assailants. (Associated Press)
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Christine Caldwell (left) receives firearms training with a 9mm Glock from personal defense instructor Jim McCarthy on Dec. 27, 2012, during concealed-weapons training for 200 Utah teachers in West Valley City, Utah. The Utah Shooting Sports Council offered six hours of training in handling concealed weapons in the latest effort to arm teachers to confront school assailants. (Associated Press)
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Clark Aposhian, president of Utah Shooting Sport Council, demonstrates with a plastic gun Dec. 27, 2012, during concealed-weapons training for 200 Utah teachers in West Valley City, Utah. The Utah Shooting Sports Council offered six hours of training in handling concealed weapons in the latest effort to arm teachers to confront school assailants. (Associated Press)
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Clark Aposhian, president of Utah Shooting Sport Council, holds a pistol Dec. 27, 2012, during concealed-weapons training for 200 Utah teachers in West Valley City, Utah. The Utah Shooting Sports Council offered six hours of training in handling concealed weapons in the latest effort to arm teachers to confront school assailants. (Associated Press)
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Carl Stubbs (center), principal of Valley View Elementary School in Pleasant Grove, looks on with other teachers Dec. 27, 2012, during concealed-weapons training for 200 Utah teachers in West Valley City, Utah. The Utah Shooting Sports Council offered six hours of training in handling concealed weapons in the latest effort to arm teachers to confront school assailants. (Associated Press)
