Several voices have been heard pushing for restrictions on the Second Amendment rights in the wake of catastrophic school shootings. Discussions about how to make society safer while yet upholding our right to bear guns are coming up more frequently.
Fairness often requires that some events be given more attention, particularly if bias appears to be involved. However, when there is no overt bias present, as in the example of a female gunman who attacked a Christian school, attention immediately turns to limiting access to and ownership of weapons.
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According to President Trump, the main issue was ensuring that teachers have access to firearms in schools as soon as feasible. He has what? Teachers should be able to defend themselves immediately in order to save their kids.
Trump said in an interview with Breitbart that if elected, his plan to stop school shootings would involve granting “teachers that are very good with firearms” the right to carry on campus. He added that it wouldn’t take very many of them to put an end to mass shootings in schools. Trump made the remarks on April 14 during his speech to the National Rifle Association’s annual gathering in Indianapolis.
In his actual address, Trump referred to school shootings as “a spiritual problem.”
“It’s a scandal and a tragedy that year after year Democrats in Washington continue to hold common sense school safety measures hostage to their radical gun control agenda, which in virtually all cases would do nothing to prevent attacks by demented and disturbed individuals,” he said.
“Our country has been chock-full of guns for centuries and there was no talk of massacres of school children until around the year 2000. That’s when it really started. They started talking about it,” Trump said.
“This is not a gun problem. This is a mental health problem. This is a social problem. This is a cultural problem. This is a spiritual problem.”
To increase school safety, President Trump suggested a novel approach: arming up to 5% of teachers. The president said what he thinks would help keep our youngsters safe across the nation in an interview with Breitbart: developing and strengthening guardians within American schools.
“More than anything else, it’s mental health and a lot of it is caused by drugs — the drugs are flowing in” through unchecked immigration and a wide-open southern border, according to Trump.
“We had it down to about a 32-year-low at the border. I heard today they’re 10 times higher than just three years ago. Can you imagine that? But I think more than anything else it’s mental health, by far. And a lot of that mental health is caused by drugs.”
He committed throughout the speech to “create a new tax credit to reimburse any teacher for the full cost of a concealed carry firearm and training from highly qualified experts [who are] better,” things he went into further detail on in his interview with Breitbart.
“So you have teachers that are military vets — and I’m talking about people that know how to handle firearms, because that’s a talent,” Trump said.
“Police officers. But you have teachers that are very good with firearms. You don’t need many. I would say 5 percent — that would be a lot. You could never hire that many security guards. They have every bit as much talent in many cases — they’re champion shooters and everything else.”
He continued by saying if the teachers “qualify at a very high level, I would let them take arms in with them. They also have the added asset of loving the students. They love the students. So if they qualify I would have them take arms in with them. In addition, I would have armed security at the front doors et cetera, but you would stop it. If people thought that randomly the teachers have guns, they wouldn’t go into the schools.
“You let everyone know that a lot of teachers are going to have guns — some people say 15 percent, but I would say 5 percent is enough. If some wacko thinks that some of these teachers they’re going to walk into have guns and they’re expert and really know how to use them, you’re not going to have a problem anymore. They’re not going to have to use them.”
After a tragedy, 21 school districts in Ohio started an innovative safety strategy by allowing teachers to carry guns on campus. The River Valley Local School District most recently become a part of this project as part of their attempts to safeguard both kids and staff against future events.
“Our schools will no longer be soft targets and unprotected,” Adam Wickham, the superintendent, reportedly told the Marion Star. “Most active shooter events occur in areas of ‘gun free zones’ or with minimal safety measures in place. We want to ensure our schools will not be soft targets.
“As a rural community, response times can often be minutes away in the event of an active shooter. The use of armed staff in our buildings can potentially save lives by providing a more immediate response to the threat.”
In contrast to the extreme and unsuccessful anti-gun policies pushed by many Democrats and the media, Donald Trump wants to implement laws that will encourage responsible gun ownership if he is re-elected.
Republican lawmakers ought to speak up and say that denying law-abiding people access to firearms does not make them safer, but rather gives criminals a chance to prey on the weak. It’s time to protect our rights under the Second Amendment!
