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Bobbi Frampton, a vocational teacher, listens 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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Cori Sorensen, a fourth-grade teacher at Highland Elementary School in Highland, Utah, receives firearms training Dec. 27, 2012, with a .357 magnum from personal defense instructor Jim McCarthy 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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The Harrold Independent School District in Harrold, Texas, has a policy allowing teachers and other school employees to carry concealed weapons, a controversial policy that's now being considered in at least five other states in the wake of the deadly school shooting in Newtown, Conn. (AP Photo/Angela K. Brown)

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Murphy High School teacher Leland Howard tries to salvage items where his algebra classroom once stood in a temporary building at Murphy High School as residents clean up and assess the damage from a Christmas Day tornado Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2012 in Mobile, Ala. (AP Photo/G.M. Andrews)

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Murphy High School athletic custodian Mike Gill, left, and maintenance man Stewart Lynch, right, asses the damage caused to the school by a Christmas Day tornado as residents clean up at first light Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2012 in Mobile, Ala. (AP Photo/G.M. Andrews)

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Police continue to block the road to Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., on Dec. 25, 2012. (Associated Press)

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Joanne and Bill Brunetti of Newtown, Conn., part of a group monitoring memorials around the clock, take an early morning shift on Dec. 25, 2012, in Newtown, near a memorial for Sandy Hook Elementary School students and teachers. Gunman Adam Lanza walked into the school on Dec. 14 and opened fire, killing 26, including 20 children, before killing himself. (Associated Press)

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Stockings and angel silhouettes honoring Sandy Hook Elementary School students and teachers line an iron fence in Newtown, Conn., Tuesday, Dec. 25, 2012. People continue to visit memorials after gunman Adam Lanza walked into Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, and opened fire, killing 26, including 20 children, before killing himself. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

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Among a memorial to the Sandy Hook Elementary students and teachers, Julian Revie of Ottawa, Canada, plays Christmas music on a piano he helped bring to the memorial, Tuesday, Dec. 25, 2012 in Newtown, Conn. People continue to visit memorials after gunman Adam Lanza walked into Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., Dec. 14, and opened fire, killing 26, including 20 children, before killing himself. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

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Portraits of slain students and teachers hang from a tree at a memorial in Newtown, Conn. Tuesday, Dec. 25, 2012. People continue to visit memorials in the wake of the shootings after gunman Adam Lanza walked into Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., Dec. 14, and opened fire, killing 26, including 20 children, before killing himself. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)