Inside the Fight to Arm Teachers in Schools: Part 2

We take you inside a training that transforms school teachers into armed educators. This is the second episode of a three part series about arming teachers that explores what exactly it means to be safe in school. In this episode, producer Jen Kinney follows Angie, an Ohio elementary school teacher with almost no firearm experience, as she learns to use a gun and role plays a shooting event in a real school. If she passes, Angie will be able to carry a gun in her classroom.

MORE: 

• This Ohio group has trained more than 1,000 teachers to carry guns.
• A woman who survived a mass shooting is working to prevent the next one. 
• VICE News’ Gianna Toboni explores the gun debate in the U.S. in the wake of the Parkland school shooting.
• A woman obsessed with the Columbine school shooting set off a manhunt when she flew to Denver, bought a shotgun and disappeared.

CREDITS: 

Reported and produced by Jen Kinney. 

VICE News Reports is produced by Jesse Alejandro Cottrell, Jen Kinney, Janice Llamoca and Julia Nutter. Our senior producers are Ashley Cleek and Adizah Eghan. Our associate producers are Sam Eagan, Sophie Kazis, and Adreanna Rodriguez. Sound design and music composition by Steve Bone and Kyle Murdock. 

 Our executive producer and VP of VICE Audio is Kate Osborn. Janet Lee is senior production manager for VICE Audio. Production coordination by Steph Brown. Fact checking by Nicole Pasulka.