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Utah launches firearms safety video for schools, confronting ‘the reality that guns are part of our society’

Utah officials unveiled a new firearm safety campaign for public schools Thursday, coincidentally a day after a Salt Lake City high school went on lockdown because a student brought a handgun into the building.

In announcing Thursday’s launch of the L.E.T.S. Stay Safe video at the state Capitol, Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes noted Wednesday’s incident at West High School — and praised students there for reporting the threat to school officials, one of the lessons the new video aims to teach. (Police arrested a juvenile with a handgun at West, and the lockdown was called off within an hour.