Arm teachers with guns to avoid school attacks: Donald Trump

Washington : The United States of America President Donald Trump has shown interest in considering proposals that arms teachers in schools with guns to avoid the incidence of mass shootings. 

Mr President while holding a listening session with the survivors of Florida School shooting and others affected by the gun violence, claimed that giving guns to the school teachers with restricted guidelines can be a success against mass shootings.

“It only works when you have people very adept at using firearms, of which you have many,” Trump said during an emotionally searing session that, extraordinarily, was broadcast live on national television. “It would be teachers and coaches.”

Backing his idea, Trump quoted an example of Aaron Feis, who had acted as a shield to protect students in Parkland school firing.

“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, he would have shot him, and that would have been the end of it. This would only obviously be for people who are very adept at handling a gun. It’s called concealed carry, where a teacher would have a concealed gun on them. They’d go for special training and they would be there and you would no longer have a gun-free zone. Gun-free zone to a maniac, because they’re all cowards, a gun-free zone is: ‘Let’s go in and let’s attack, because bullets aren’t coming back at us’.”

Trump added: “An attack has lasted, on average, about three minutes. It takes five to eight minutes for responders, for the police to come in, so the attack is over. If you had a teacher who was adept at firearms, they could very well end the attack very quickly.”