President Trump participates in a listening session on gun violence with high school students, teachers and parents at the White House on Feb. 21. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg News)On Thursday morning, President Trump sent tweets that advocated arming teachers and coaches at schools following the high school shooting in Parkland, Fla., last week. Highly trained, gun adept, teachers/coaches would solve the problem instantly, before police arrive,” Trump tweeted. The group of parents, students and teachers offered solutions including raising the age limit of individuals who would have access to assault weapons. During a listening session, Trump proposed hiring veterans to serve as security guards at schools and arming 20 percent of teachers — which would amount to training and arming about 640,000 people.

Source: Washington Post February 23, 2018 03:11 UTC