Posted on 02/22/2018 12:33:17 PM PST by conservative98
President Trump on Thursday repeated his call to arm teachers to prevent mass school shootings — saying that as many as 40 percent of a school’s educators could pack heat and get bonuses for their efforts to keep kids safe.
“I want certain highly adept people, people who understand weaponry, guns … [and] a concealed [carry] permit” for teachers to carry guns on school property, the president said during a White House sitdown with members of his cabinet, lawmakers and Mayor Christine Hunschofsky of Parkland, Florida.
Fourteen students and three staffers were gunned down at a high school there by a 19-year-old former student armed with an assault rifle last week.
SEE ALSO Trump: I only said I would arm some teachers Trump: I only said I would arm some teachers Trump said the armed educators should get “a little bit of a bonus” and mentioned 10 percent, 20 percent and 40 percent as possible numbers of teachers who would qualify for the “rigorous training” that would be required.
School security guards alone are not the answer, he added.
“You can’t hire enough security guards … You need 100, 150 security guards. But you could have concealed [guns] on the teacher,” Trump said
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Why not volunteer parents?
Thing is, back then, if you lipped off, acted up or decided you were “special”, teachers could bitch-slap you into the middle of next week.
My dad was fond of saying “Nothing like an ass-kicking to keep you humble.”
“Spare the rod and spoil the child.”
The one who said that knew what He was doing.
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