Trump tweets support for arming teachers, says ‘up to states’

It should not be easier for a madman to shoot up a school than a bank or a jewelry store or some Hollywood gala.

Snacks for students, stationery and smaller class sizes are among the requests of American teachers as U.S. President Donald Trump continues to insist guns in the classroom are the answer to school shootings.

The National Association of School Resource Officers favors hiring more trained law enforcement officers, in part to ensure a teacher’s gun won’t mistakenly wind up in a student’s hands.

In November 2015, following a series of terrorist attacks in and near Paris that left 130 people dead, Trump criticized the city for having “the toughest gun laws in the world”. People should be able to feel that when they go to school, they can be safe… And they see that, it’s such a attractive target.

Seventeen innocent people had just been murdered by a 19-year-old white male terrorist with a gun that should’ve been regulated.

But in the aftermath of yet another mass school shooting, there are deep divisions, from President Donald Trump to educators, parents and school security officers, about whether teachers should be armed. I want it to sink in.

Kansas Sen. Pat Roberts, another Republican, told reporters during a visit to the Kansas Statehouse that he supported raising age limits, saying: “Certainly, nobody under 21 should have an AR-15”. Trump said in a separate tweet.

She said Scott’s plan to make it illegal for anyone under 21 to purchase a gun is a start, but said she doesn’t think it goes far enough. “I don’t have the expertise, I don’t really want the expertise, I don’t think that’s the answer to this problem”. “People like to blame them”. “The teachers love their children, they love their pupils, they love their students”.

And then in his next sentence, he may have given away the reason he and the NRA seem to be using similar, and sometimes the exact same, language.

A woman close to Cruz warned the Federal Bureau of Investigation on January 5 that he had rifles and said, “I know he is going to explode”, according to a transcript of the tip to the FBI’s call center, which was obtained Friday by The Associated Press.

Calling the school community his family, he said, “Those are kids and teachers and staff I’ve known for years”.

Trump was expected to meet with state and local officials on school safety on Thursday.

“We’re working on comprehensive solutions”, Ryckman said. And these teachers are talented with weaponry and with guns.

He said the “evil massacre” of 17 people at the Florida high school had “broken our hearts”.

In his first public comments since the shooting, LaPierre reiterated long-standing accusations that gun control advocates were seeking to roll back the constitutional right to bear arms.

The president brought up the possibility of arming some teachers with guns.

The students were joined by their parents as well as family members of victims killed in the 1999 shooting at Colorado’s Columbine High School and the 2012 killings at Sandy Hook Elementary in CT. And he said he was committed to improving background checks and working on mental health.

Trump also emphasized other changes he wants lawmakers to take action on.

“We have to harden our schools, not soften them”, he said, noting that police take eight minutes on average to get to a gun incident at a school. I don’t like it.

Trump has offered no details on how such a program would work, how much it would cost and how school districts already strapped for cash would fund it.