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How Texas educators train before arming themselves at school

The school marshal program allows certain school staffers to carry a firearm and neutralize active shooters on campus. Here's how participants train.

An educator partakes in a simulated shooting as part of a training for school marshals. School marshals are school staff trained and armed to take out a threat to their campus.
Educators take part in active shooter training in Pflugerville on August 10, 2018.

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