'Fix it': Students and parents tell Trump he needs to address gun violence at schools
Source: The Washington Post
By Jenna Johnson and John Wagner February 21 at 8:20 PM
President Trump leaned forward and listened intently for nearly an hour Wednesday afternoon as students, parents and teachers begged him to do something, anything, to prevent a mass shooting from happening at another school.
The group offered a wide variety of suggestions — bolster school security, drill students on what to do during a shooting and raise the age at which someone can buy an assault rifle — but in the end, the president remained focused on the solution he often proposes after a mass shooting: increasing the number of people with guns so they can quickly stop shooters with lethal force.
“If the coach had a firearm in his locker, when he ran at this guy — that coach was very brave, saved a lot of lives, I suspect — but if he had a firearm, he wouldn’t have had to run,” Trump said, referring to Aaron Feis, an assistant football coach and security guard who was one of 17 people killed by a gunman last week at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in South Florida. “He would have shot, and that would have been the end of it.”
The 70-minute listening session with students, parents and teachers at the White House was a remarkable event with participants’ raw emotions often on display — at one point, a student openly sobbed after he spoke, his head down as he wiped away tears and those around him rubbed his back.
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