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ARMED TO THE TEETHTrump Tells Shooting Survivors: Solution to ‘Your Problem’ Is More Guns in School
Gideon Resnick
02.21.18 6:39 PM ET
Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty
While meeting with survivors of last week’s school shooting, President Donald Trump on Wednesday endorsed the idea of preventing school shootings by having more guns on campus.
One week after 17 people were killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, the president sat for a roundtable discussion with some survivors and their families, teachers, and parents of Sandy Hook and Columbine victims, and listened to their harrowing stories, impassioned pleas, and thoughts on how to prevent future massacres.
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When Trump spoke about proposed solutions, he suggested that arming teachers in their classrooms could act as a deterrent when a gunman enters a school.
“If you had a teacher with, who was adept at firearms, they could very well end the attack very quickly,” the president said. “And the good thing about a suggestion like that, and we’re going to be looking at it very strongly, I think a lot of people are going to be opposed to it, I think a lot of people are going to like it. But the good thing is you’ll have a lot of people with that.”
Trump says he will be looking closely at the idea of arming teachers in schools https://t.co/alxyJFApE1
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) February 21, 2018
Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel said that there actually was an armed guard on the high school campus, but that the guard never encountered alleged shooter Nikolas Cruz.
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The president, appearing to reference how football coach Aaron Feis died shielding students, suggested: “If the coach had a firearm in his locker… he wouldn’t have had to run, he would have shot [Cruz], and that would have been the end of it.”
He continued: “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.”
The president also mentioned a hypothetical scenario in which there would be armed military veterans in every school protecting students.
“You’d have a lot of people that would be armed, that would be ready,” Trump said. “They’re professionals, they may be Marines that left the Marines, that left the Army, left the Air Force... They’d be spread evenly throughout the school.”
If would-be school shooters knew that trained vets and armed teachers populated campuses, “they wouldn’t go into the school to start off with,” the president said.
“I think it could very well solve your problem.”
He went on to say that “a lot of people don’t understand that airline pilots, a lot of them, carry guns. I have to say that things have changed a lot.”
Trump then proceeded to poll the room of students and their families on whether they liked his idea.
Later Wednesday, the Broward County superintendent, Robert Runcie, pushed back against Trump’s suggestions, saying before a CNN town hall: “We don’t need to put guns in the hands of teachers. You know what we need? We need to arm our teachers with more money in their pocket.”
The president also spoke about mental health issues, suggesting that it should be made easier to confine an individual who hasn’t yet committed a crime. “Years ago, we had mental hospitals, institutions, we had a lot of them and a lot of them have closed. Some people thought it was a stigma,” Trump said. “Today, if you catch somebody, they don’t know what to do with him. He hasn’t committed the crime, but he may very well and there’s no mental institution.”
He also assured his audience that he supports strong background checks for gun purchases, an idea that has gained some traction in the White House.
“We’re going to be very strong on background checks,” Trump declared. “We’ll be doing very strong background checks. Very strong emphasis on the mental health of somebody. And we are going to do plenty of other things.”
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A CHASTE NEW WORLDThese College Guys Are Trying to Ban Porn on Campus
Emily Shugerman
12.06.18 4:51 AM ET
Republicans and radical feminists have all but abandoned it, but the fight against porn has an unlikely new champion: college men.
Combining the energy of the #MeToo movement with a moral fervor, students at universities across the country told The Daily Beast they are working to get pornography off their campuses.
The effort started at Notre Dame University in October, when 80 male students penned an open letter requesting a porn filter on the campus WiFi. Since then, lead letter-writer Jim Martinson said, he’s received emails from more than 40 students at other universities who want to install a filter on their own campuses.
Georgetown senior Amelia Irvine, a conservative firebrand, told The Daily Beast that Martinson’s letter inspired her to push for something similar at her Catholic university. She plans to recruit support over the winter break and start an open letter or petition in the spring.
Students at secular schools like Harvard, Princeton, and the University of Pennsylvania also said they were excited by the idea, but were still figuring out how it could work on their campuses. At Princeton and Penn, students said they were already tabling and handing out fliers about the dangers of pornography on campus.
"I’m excited and I think we can really get this done,” Martinson said. “And I’m also confident that if we do get it done at Notre Dame, that other universities will follow suit.”
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ARMED TO THE TEETHTrump Tells Shooting Survivors: Solution to ‘Your Problem’ Is More Guns in School
Gideon Resnick
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While meeting with survivors of last week’s school shooting, President Donald Trump on Wednesday endorsed the idea of preventing school shootings by having more guns on campus.
One week after 17 people were killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, the president sat for a roundtable discussion with some survivors and their families, teachers, and parents of Sandy Hook and Columbine victims, and listened to their harrowing stories, impassioned pleas, and thoughts on how to prevent future massacres.
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When Trump spoke about proposed solutions, he suggested that arming teachers in their classrooms could act as a deterrent when a gunman enters a school.
“If you had a teacher with, who was adept at firearms, they could very well end the attack very quickly,” the president said. “And the good thing about a suggestion like that, and we’re going to be looking at it very strongly, I think a lot of people are going to be opposed to it, I think a lot of people are going to like it. But the good thing is you’ll have a lot of people with that.”
Trump says he will be looking closely at the idea of arming teachers in schools https://t.co/alxyJFApE1
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) February 21, 2018
Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel said that there actually was an armed guard on the high school campus, but that the guard never encountered alleged shooter Nikolas Cruz.
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The president, appearing to reference how football coach Aaron Feis died shielding students, suggested: “If the coach had a firearm in his locker… he wouldn’t have had to run, he would have shot [Cruz], and that would have been the end of it.”
He continued: “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.”
The president also mentioned a hypothetical scenario in which there would be armed military veterans in every school protecting students.
“You’d have a lot of people that would be armed, that would be ready,” Trump said. “They’re professionals, they may be Marines that left the Marines, that left the Army, left the Air Force... They’d be spread evenly throughout the school.”
If would-be school shooters knew that trained vets and armed teachers populated campuses, “they wouldn’t go into the school to start off with,” the president said.
“I think it could very well solve your problem.”
He went on to say that “a lot of people don’t understand that airline pilots, a lot of them, carry guns. I have to say that things have changed a lot.”
Trump then proceeded to poll the room of students and their families on whether they liked his idea.
Later Wednesday, the Broward County superintendent, Robert Runcie, pushed back against Trump’s suggestions, saying before a CNN town hall: “We don’t need to put guns in the hands of teachers. You know what we need? We need to arm our teachers with more money in their pocket.”
The president also spoke about mental health issues, suggesting that it should be made easier to confine an individual who hasn’t yet committed a crime. “Years ago, we had mental hospitals, institutions, we had a lot of them and a lot of them have closed. Some people thought it was a stigma,” Trump said. “Today, if you catch somebody, they don’t know what to do with him. He hasn’t committed the crime, but he may very well and there’s no mental institution.”
He also assured his audience that he supports strong background checks for gun purchases, an idea that has gained some traction in the White House.
“We’re going to be very strong on background checks,” Trump declared. “We’ll be doing very strong background checks. Very strong emphasis on the mental health of somebody. And we are going to do plenty of other things.”
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A CHASTE NEW WORLDThese College Guys Are Trying to Ban Porn on Campus
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Republicans and radical feminists have all but abandoned it, but the fight against porn has an unlikely new champion: college men.
Combining the energy of the #MeToo movement with a moral fervor, students at universities across the country told The Daily Beast they are working to get pornography off their campuses.
The effort started at Notre Dame University in October, when 80 male students penned an open letter requesting a porn filter on the campus WiFi. Since then, lead letter-writer Jim Martinson said, he’s received emails from more than 40 students at other universities who want to install a filter on their own campuses.
Georgetown senior Amelia Irvine, a conservative firebrand, told The Daily Beast that Martinson’s letter inspired her to push for something similar at her Catholic university. She plans to recruit support over the winter break and start an open letter or petition in the spring.
Students at secular schools like Harvard, Princeton, and the University of Pennsylvania also said they were excited by the idea, but were still figuring out how it could work on their campuses. At Princeton and Penn, students said they were already tabling and handing out fliers about the dangers of pornography on campus.
"I’m excited and I think we can really get this done,” Martinson said. “And I’m also confident that if we do get it done at Notre Dame, that other universities will follow suit.”
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