A Connecticut town located just 45 minutes by car from Newtown, the site of the third-deadliest school shooting in US history, is considering arming its school teachers.

Elected officials in Kent, Connecticut voted 2-1 Wednesday to present information about a program called 'FASTER Saves Lives' to the town's Board of Education.

'FASTER' is an acronym that stands for Faculty/Administrator Safety Training and Emergency Response.

The Kent Center School is the town of Kent's only school. Elected officials in the town are proposing to arm teachers

According to a website devoted to the program, it aims to provide 'training in armed response, crisis management, and emergency medical aid.'

'The FASTER program pays for tuition and lodging and local school boards authorize these trained staff members to carry firearms in school,' the website reads.

The training consists of a three-day class with 26 hours of lessons.

The program was launched by the Buckeye Firearms Foundation on December 20, 2012, only six days after a gunman killed 20 six-and-seven-year-olds and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown.

Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut was the site of one of the most deadly school shootings in US history and is located a 45 minute drive from Kent

People in Newtown react to the 2012 school massacre that killed 20 children and six adults at an elementary school

'I guess I'm really on the fence,' Kent parent Paulette Menniti told the news station WFSB.

'That's a really touchy subject. It's really hard to make that call. I want my children safe, but at the hands of someone who is extremely well-trained and someone with a good mind and sound mind. That, of course, is up to opinion.'

Only one of three officials who voted on Wednesday is against the program.

'I didn't feel that our small elementary school is ready for, or needs armed people,' First Selectman Bruce Adams told WSFB.

Connecticut governor Dannel Malloy spoke out against the program on Thursday, objecting to a stipulation of the program that would allow anonymous volunteers to carry guns at school.

'If any board of education would approve this, I'd be shocked, frightened and disappointed,' Malloy told the Associated Press.

'It makes no sense. And no school system in the state of Connecticut should be allowed to do this.'

'The idea that we're going to have a volunteer receive 26 hours of training or teachers and principals receive 26 hours of training, that's just unacceptable,' Malloy said.

'It puts children in more danger, not less.'

Jeffrey Parkin, who first came up with the idea to propose the program in Kent, told the Danbury News Times the reaction to the proposal has 'gotten out of hand.'

'It's being suggested that teachers would be walking around the school visibly packing guns,' Parkin said on Thursday.

'But if Kent went into this program, the gun or guns would be concealed. It would be up to the Board of Education how the gun would be kept, possibly in a safe with access for trained staff. It's not for me to say. But the program would be totally opaque. No one would know staff had access to guns.'

Kent Board of Education chairman Paul Cortese told the News Times the board does not have plans to discuss the proposal.

Children are being led from Sandy Hook Elementary School by state police officers after the 2012 massacre