“We want to learn everything we can learn. We’re going to take action”. This is a long-term situation that we have to solve. Trump said during his CPAC speech. “But we’ll study that along with many other ideas”.
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At the meeting, and earlier in the day on Twitter, the President set out a series of different ideas that he said would help with school security.
“They’d go for special training and they would be there and you would no longer have a gun-free zone”. “The laws of the country have failed”. “This shouldn’t happen”, he said. It was the first organised protest of the youth-led anti-gun movement that has swept the United States since the school attack. He wrote that NRA officials “love our Country and will do the right thing”.
The president was referring to comments he made on Wednesday during a White House listening session with victims and survivors of school shootings, including last week’s attack in Parkland, Florida that left 17 people dead. Far more assets at much less cost than guards. Because my daughter I’m not going to see again.
Among other things, Trump argued that shooters are attracted to places where people are not armed with deadly weapons.
Trump’s tweets come amid a growing call for stricter gun laws from school shooting survivors and parents whose children were murdered in shootings. Trump listened to all of the participants.
Cruz was a former student and was expelled from the high school for disciplinary reasons. “There is a tremendous feeling that we want to get something done”. “What is your recommendation to stop it?” he asked them. On Thursday, he suggested bonuses for teachers who choose to carry guns. “There are plenty of teachers that are already licensed to carry firearms”.
During the 70-minute session Wednesday, Trump touted the idea of arming school staff as a key deterrent that would have stopped the Florida massacre. If the coach had a firearm in his locker when he ran at this guy – that coach was very fearless.
“And then in the end how did somebody like this person get access to that kind of firearm”, said Hunschofsky.
The only small glimmer of hope from this very bad episode is that young people across America have started to mobilise and have become motivated to seek real gun control law changes.
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Trump also tweeted: “I will be strongly pushing Comprehensive Background Checks with an emphasis on Mental Health. We need our children safe”. Those gathered offered a number of proposals – like increasing school safety and raising age limits for assault weapon purchases – while Trump focused on increasing the number of guns at schools by arming certain teachers with concealed weapons.
