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Trump endorses guns for teachers to stop shootings
BBC ^ | Feb. 21, 2018 | BBC

Posted on 02/21/2018 7:15:27 PM PST by Innovative

US President Donald Trump has said arming teachers could prevent school shootings like that which left 17 people dead last week in Florida.

A staff member with a gun could end an attack "very quickly", he said.

Mr Trump floated the proposal as emotional survivors of the 14 February massacre implored him to make sure it never happens again.

The Republican president also backed calls for improved background checks on gun buyers.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; banglist; ca; california; guns; nra; secondamendment; shootings; trump; whittier
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Exactly right.
1 posted on 02/21/2018 7:15:27 PM PST by Innovative
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To: Innovative

YEESSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!


2 posted on 02/21/2018 7:17:18 PM PST by goodnesswins (There were 1.41 MILLION NON Profit orgs in 2013 with $1.73 TRILLION in REVENUE)
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To: Innovative

BEST PRESIDENT EVAH!


3 posted on 02/21/2018 7:17:24 PM PST by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Forever))
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To: Innovative

How about just allowing teachers with CCW permits to not be sitting ducks for deranged madmen with no regard for their no guns allowed signs. Revolutionary idea, I know.


4 posted on 02/21/2018 7:18:50 PM PST by MountainWalker
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To: Innovative

If they have armed guards to protect politicians and celebrities...why not kids?


5 posted on 02/21/2018 7:19:22 PM PST by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: Innovative

Loved when he said that, at the listening session.

I read that one of the snake Dim Senators is planning to fight this idea.

Of course....they don’t really want kids protected, from the unborn - teens.

Sick agenda, over protections for ALL children.


6 posted on 02/21/2018 7:20:18 PM PST by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: Innovative

And he says he doesn’t believe gun free zones are effective for prevention of mass shooters.

I want to see the talking heads explode now.


7 posted on 02/21/2018 7:20:48 PM PST by Blue Collar Christian (We Arizonans need to get rid of McCain/Flake as all of us pray for Trump.)
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To: Jane Long

Blumenthal is already out there whining about it


8 posted on 02/21/2018 7:22:38 PM PST by digger48
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

Yup.

Dickhead from CT thinks our kids’ lives aren’t worth as much as politicians and celebrities.

Time to get rid of the misnamed Gun-Free Schools Zones Act altogether.

Its a failure.


9 posted on 02/21/2018 7:22:46 PM PST by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Forever))
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To: Innovative
Just remove these signs:


10 posted on 02/21/2018 7:23:41 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (<img src="http://i.imgur.com/WukZwJP.gif" width=800>)
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

Don’t our kids deserve the same protection detail that 0’s kid’s or Minority Crumb “Leader” or celebrities kids/grandkids schools have?


11 posted on 02/21/2018 7:24:19 PM PST by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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BBC says,”even if the Second Amendment were repealed - it wouldn’t mean that guns were banned. It would simply remove the constitutional right to “keep and bear arms”...

No thank you. The British tried to seize the Colonists arms and ammunition at Lexington, but paid dearly for it.
There’s reasons from history why we have a Second Amendment.


12 posted on 02/21/2018 7:25:56 PM PST by Sasparilla ( I'm Not Tired of Winning)
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Yeah.....that’s the snake I was thinking about. Blumenthal.

Only for me (and my family)....NOT for thee!!


13 posted on 02/21/2018 7:26:04 PM PST by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: Innovative


14 posted on 02/21/2018 7:26:13 PM PST by JoeProBono (SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
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Good. Very good.

I personally don’t believe that arming teachers goes far enough, but I like it.

I want trained, armed, professional men in every, single school in America.

I also want physical fortifications and security measures.

I am not willing to entertain the non-solution of gun control and “defense-free kill zones”.

This is America, and Americans have the right to bears arms and to defend ourselves.

So let us bear our arms and defend ourselves.

We are not sitting ducks that hide under desks and throw canned food at attackers.

That is not who we are.


15 posted on 02/21/2018 7:26:48 PM PST by chris37 (Take a week off racist >;-)
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It should, and I assume would, be volunteers who would have extra training in gun use and tactics.


16 posted on 02/21/2018 7:27:58 PM PST by luvbach1 (I hope Trump runs roughshod over the inevitable obstuctionists, Dems, progs, libs, or RINOs!)
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I told you meanie-old FReepers. Everybody was having their menstrual cycle on another so-called Trump cave on this thread here.

Now that Trump has listened to the other side, the victims/parents, and even offered a proposal (a measly memo to "Sleepy" Sessions) that does diddly squat to gun rights in the end, he shows his cards that will now dominate the news cycle and drown out the kids being exploited by Pappa Soros.

Donald J. Trump is quite possibly the most mind-blowingly brilliant politician in modern American history.

17 posted on 02/21/2018 7:28:12 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (If the illegal immigration issue were Social Security, it'd be privatized by now.)
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To: JoeProBono

If the Israelis have armed teachers and school guards, why can’t we?

Common sense deserts liberals.


18 posted on 02/21/2018 7:29:46 PM PST by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Forever))
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To: Innovative

Finally ! A national leader who get’s it !

Armed teachers represents an important target hardening against terrorist attack as well.


19 posted on 02/21/2018 7:29:57 PM PST by Reverend Wright (I am a Putin bot and I approve this message.)
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To: Innovative

Most teachers are liberal nut jobs, who crack up at a moments notice, handing crazy lunitic teachers guns is a bad idea. Armed Marshals and metal detectors may be a more sane solution.


20 posted on 02/21/2018 7:35:29 PM PST by WhatNot (The Gospel doesn't promise the American dream, it promises Eternal life in the Kingdom of God.)
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