After Taliban attack, teachers in Pakistan receiving firearms training

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published 3 February 2015

Teachers in Pakistan's Peshawar Province are being educated on the proper way to shoot guns following the Taliban massacre that killed 150 people in December.

The local government has agreed to let teachers bring licensed weapons into their classrooms, ABC News reports, and has held several firearms training workshops. Security guards will also be allowed to carry automatic weapons. Teachers aren't expected to be expert shooters, but the government hopes that they will at least be able to hold off attackers until police arrive. One educator, Shabham Tabinda told The Associated Press she is willing to do anything to defend her students, saying, "Whoever kills innocents, God willing, I will shoot them."

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Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.