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Miles Archer

(18,837 posts)
Thu Feb 22, 2018, 11:10 AM Feb 2018

Trump's solution for school shootings is everything you'd expect from someone who "just kisses."

Donald J. Trump? Verified account @realDonaldTrump

Will be meeting with Lawmakers today at 11:30 A.M. to discuss School Safety. Next week it will be with our Nation’s Governors. It’s been many years of all talk, no action. We’ll get it done!
7:53 AM - 22 Feb 2018




Donald J. Trump ?Verified account @realDonaldTrump

I never said “give teachers guns” like was stated on Fake News @CNN & @NBC. What I said was to look at the possibility of giving “concealed guns to gun adept teachers with military or special training experience - only the best. 20% of teachers, a lot, would now be able to
5:26 AM - 22 Feb 2018




Donald J. Trump? Verified account @realDonaldTrump

....immediately fire back if a savage sicko came to a school with bad intentions. Highly trained teachers would also serve as a deterrent to the cowards that do this. Far more assets at much less cost than guards. A “gun free” school is a magnet for bad people. ATTACKS WOULD END!
5:40 AM - 22 Feb 2018




Donald J. Trump ?Verified account @realDonaldTrump

....History shows that a school shooting lasts, on average, 3 minutes. It takes police & first responders approximately 5 to 8 minutes to get to site of crime. Highly trained, gun adept, teachers/coaches would solve the problem instantly, before police arrive. GREAT DETERRENT!
5:54 AM - 22 Feb 2018




Donald J. Trump?Verified account @realDonaldTrump

....If a potential “sicko shooter” knows that a school has a large number of very weapons talented teachers (and others) who will be instantly shooting, the sicko will NEVER attack that school. Cowards won’t go there...problem solved. Must be offensive, defense alone won’t work!
6:05 AM - 22 Feb 2018


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Trump's solution for school shootings is everything you'd expect from someone who "just kisses." (Original Post) Miles Archer Feb 2018 OP
Someone shut this stupid mother fucker up, PLEASE! onecaliberal Feb 2018 #1
What are "very weapons"? underpants Feb 2018 #2
New buzz phrase: "gun adept" teachers. femmocrat Feb 2018 #3
It's the movie "The Substitute." Miles Archer Feb 2018 #5
Thanks. I think you are right. femmocrat Feb 2018 #6
A few on DU have also compared him to Peter Sellers' character in "Being There." Miles Archer Feb 2018 #8
The only part Drumpf gets is "Must be offensive" he is the most offensive rzemanfl Feb 2018 #4
"sicko shooter" --- he knows all the good words!!! winstars Feb 2018 #7
There was an armed guard AT THE SCHOOL THAT DAY !!! uponit7771 Feb 2018 #9

femmocrat

(28,394 posts)
3. New buzz phrase: "gun adept" teachers.
Thu Feb 22, 2018, 11:15 AM
Feb 2018

They are also "only the best 20%," "highly trained," and "talented." Maybe they would be accepted to train at Quantico! Wow, think of the merit pay opportunities!
Where do we sign up?

God save us all.

Added on edit: There have been a number of mass shootings on military bases where everyone is armed, highly trained, and well-qualified. So much for that argument, trump.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2014/04/02/shooting-attacks-military-bases-history/7225403/

Miles Archer

(18,837 posts)
5. It's the movie "The Substitute."
Thu Feb 22, 2018, 11:23 AM
Feb 2018

I swear to God that either Trump saw the movie, or one of his stooges saw it and gave him the summary.



Jonathan Shale (Berenger) is a mercenary and a Vietnam veteran who returns home to Miami after a botched covert operation in Cuba in which three men from his platoon were killed. He surprises his girlfriend, Jane Hetzko (Diane Venora) at her apartment and is warmly welcomed. On the outside, Hetzko is a schoolteacher at inner-city Columbus High School, an institution with a considerable gang problem. She is particularly disliked by Juan Lacas (Anthony), leader of the KOD "Kings of Destruction" gang. While jogging one morning, Hetzko is attacked and has her leg broken. Hetzko and Shale believe this to be related to the KOD, which prompts the latter to go undercover as an Ivy League-educated, government-affiliated substitute teacher for his girlfriend's class.

Shale arrives at Columbus High School and is, at first, taken aback by the lowly conditions. He is unable to control his class of poorly-educated students on the first day, but decides to use his street-smarts and military tactics to gain the upper hand. Soon enough, he is able to take command of the students by displaying his combat self-defense techniques when students attack him. He is warned not to use such methods by Principal Claude Rolle (Hudson), but gains the respect of his students when he bonds with them over the similarities between his early gang and Vietnam War experiences and their involvement in petty crime and street gangs. During this time, he befriends fellow schoolteacher Darrell Sherman (Plummer) and also crosses paths with Lacas, one of his students.

Suspicious of odd conditions within the high school, Shale sets up surveillance cameras throughout the building. He discovers that Lacas orchestrated the attack on Hetzko. He also discovers that Lacas is secretly working with Rolle to distribute cocaine around Miami for a major narcotics ring. Shale and his team raid a drug deal, using the stolen money to buy music and sports equipment in the form of a "school donation." While Sherman initially denies Shale's discovery and accuses him of being racist by trying to tear down the good works of Principal Rolle (which are only done to give him both distance from and a money-laundering avenue for Rolle's criminal enterprises), Sherman and a female student inadvertently witness the drugs being loaded into one of the school buses later that day. Sherman tells the student to warn Shale and Hetzko, and sacrifices himself by creating a distraction.

Rolle, who at this point is aware of Shale's interference orders a "car accident" for Shale, and sends Lacas after Hetzko. With the help of another student, Sherman is killed and Shale saves Hetzko by fighting and killing Lacas, learning the full story from the female witness. Shale and his team garrison the school grounds to enter combat against the remaining K.O.D. members, a rival mercenary company led by Janus, and Rolle himself. Ultimately, Shale and Joey Six kill all of the dealers and Rolle while ending up as the sole survivors of the battle, walking away from the school grounds discussing future operations as substitute teachers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Substitute

femmocrat

(28,394 posts)
6. Thanks. I think you are right.
Thu Feb 22, 2018, 11:28 AM
Feb 2018

That one is definitely not in my Netflix queue! LOL

Remember how we used to believe that reagan was reliving old movie scripts? I think he even spoke some of the lines at times. It's not beyond belief that trump is doing the same thing. We all know he is low-intelligence and delusional.

Miles Archer

(18,837 posts)
8. A few on DU have also compared him to Peter Sellers' character in "Being There."
Thu Feb 22, 2018, 11:50 AM
Feb 2018

I remember reading that George W. Bush's sole source of "news" was a daily DVD that Andy Card burned for him, exclusively from Fox News. We all know Dubya was "intellectually incurious," but Trump seems to take that to a new level.

He watches TV primarily to seek adulation, but because he likes agitation and conflict, he's also still addicted to CNN and Morning Joe.

And the biggest danger is that even just a little flattery opens the gateway to his being manipulated. I posted something last week about Eric and on Jr "egging him on" to go into "attack mode" on Twitter.

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