Trump Just Announced His Plan To Train Teachers To Use Guns As Part Of His School Safety Policy

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Source: buzz feed






The White House said it will use government funding to help states train and arm school personnel as part of Trump's new school safety policy.
Posted on March 11, 2018, at 8:01 p.m.


President Donald Trump is proposing to use Department of Justice funding to help states train and arm school personnel as part of his school safety policy proposal released Sunday.

In conjunction with supporting firearm training for volunteer educators across the country, US Education Secretary Betsy DeVos will also chair a federal commission on school safety geared toward recommending policy and funding proposals for school violence prevention.

The White House billed the new, two-pronged approach a "pragmatic plan to dramatically increase school safety immediately."

"There has been a lot of talk and too little action," DeVos said on a call Sunday. "There are steps that can be taken right away to protect students."

Tapping into Justice Department resources and finances, the government will help states partner with law enforcement agencies to train school personnel who volunteer, the White House explained. Arming educators has been a divisive, contested issue since Trump floated the idea at a listening session with school shooting survivors, with many students and parents from Parkland, Florida, decrying the idea of putting more guns on campus as a way to thwart mass school shootings.....................................

Read more: https://www.buzzfeed.com/briannasacks/trump-arm-teachers-school-safety?utm_term=.lgrzEBPkp#.burXklm40

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I read he was planning this but here it is. damn.

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KarenLMcHalePhoto
? @KarenLMcHale
12m12 minutes ago
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I am SO GLAD that my youngest graduates high school this year. 😡
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Demand action
? @womansadvocate
12m12 minutes ago

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FFS🤬🤬🔥🔥🔥
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yolgezer
? @yolgezer
14m14 minutes ago

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Instead of limiting the number of people own gun, having more people own gun.

Seriously, is this the solution?
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middleagedlibvet
? @Sherralynn
13m13 minutes ago

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This is very scary.
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Karen ferguson
? @Fergkaren
16m16 minutes ago

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This will not end well. Teachers should not have guns!

[Initech]

1. God damn the gun nuts.

Bullets coming from one direction are already bad enough! Imagine them coming from multiple directions. Or worse - imagine a teacher in a standoff situation. Or imagine a teacher who leaves their gun safe unlocked or does something foolish with their guns. There are no good outcomes from this.

[Mr.Bill]

2. This is the most astoundingly stupid idea

the government has ever had.

[rurallib]

3. the ones left who don't quit in protest

Not too sure I would want the ones who don't quit in protest to have a gun.

[GP6971]

4. This is such utter BS

By doing this they're only increasing the tension these kids have to go through.

[djacq]

5. A teacher unintentionally shoots a student and will say,

“I was in fear for my life.”

[bucolic_frolic]

6. Betsy is training the SWAT teams

I am so relieved that someone more knowledgeable than Trump is in charge of this

btw they are feeding the beast. rather than starving the beast they are arming for confrontation

Warrior/teachers are an untested role

[sumus]

7. Sister Mary Anthony has a gun.

Are you wacky? What idiot, and that's a stretch for mental ability, thought this was a good idea? I remember Sister Mary Anthony, trust me she should never have been armed.

[procon]

8. Who would send their children into an armed camp where wannabe Rambos

want to have shootouts with anyone they might imagine looks threatening?

[groundloop]

9. And to cut costs they'll do online training for the Rambo Teachers

This is one of the dumbest ideas to come out of the 45* administration yet.

[paleotn]

10. And that's going precisely....

no where. Oh, yes, treat the damn symptoms, not the problem.

[Still In Wisconsin]

11. Here's a little story from my daughters' high school:

I currently have two lovely high school aged girls who attend a public school with a- shall we say "overzealous" Vice Principal we will call "Mr. X." Twice within the past school year, Mr. X has physically tackled students who he thought had weapons. In one case it was a cell phone and in another, it was a set of keys. Both times the kids were fine, and kinda laughed it off as "Crazy Mr. X being himself."

Now, everyone can see where I'm going with this right? Give Mr. X a firearm (which I am 100% certain he WILL carry if given the opportunity) and both of those kids get shot. Because, you know, Mr. X feared for his safety, and all that.

Dumb, stupid idea, so no wonder DeVos is pushing it.

[Freedomofspeech]

12. It will never happen.

[BigmanPigman]

13. I read an article in The Week tonight which said that this

is a ploy by the NRA to focus attention on something that won't happen since the other more important issues like raising the age, banning certain gun attachments and background checks are being taken more seriously by Americans due to the #ENOUGH movement and the FL shootings.

[Rhiannon12866]

14. How much more insane does this have to get??

[BigmanPigman]

15. The local school boards may have to think twice about arming teachers

the next time they turn them down the raise that they had earlier promised and then took back. They can afford guns, ammo, training and insurance but not a COLA?!? Explain that math equation please.

[duforsure]

16. He'll do like he always does

Once they get them trained he'll make them pay for it, and their own guns as a condition of their employment. Then attack their unions and funnel more money into privatizing them, and screwing over public schools so he can push his propaganda to them young like the Communist did , like in Cuba. Had a friend escape having that done to him when his family fled Cuba.