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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want people to do something, incentivize it. add a small stipend to their pay every day they carry - and verify that they do, in fact carry a loaded firearm for each day they get paid. AND provide a specific range requirement to maintain skill levels...intramural competition would also help
Exactly.
They get paid from the same source that teacher’s pay comes from...Just like the supplement that coaches get....
Was there any other Republican candidate that would have had the guts and common sense to propose this?
I'm sure he was a little annoyed by their ignorance of guns AND the Constitution.
I’m inclined toward not paying extra.
Just allow CCW in schools.
Those good people inclined to will, on the whole, do so responsibly & discretely. If needed, that person will either already be a target (and be able to fight back), or can make the un-coerced decision to head into danger. Merely knowing that a school is not a “gun free zone” will deter most would-be killers.
Anyone abusing it (flashing it at kids, making threats, leaving it exposed, etc) - well, we already have laws in place regarding “brandishing”, “threatening”, “reckless endangerment”, etc ... enforce accordingly, starting with immediate firing.
My concern is those who, seeing the $$$, will step right up to the training, going thru the motions, pocket the cash, and be seriously unavailable (physically or emotionally) when need arises. Wrong incentive.
Just. Let. Citizens. CCW. Period.
CCWers have already gone thru background checks etc commensurate with state law (right or wrong re: Constitutional Carry). Teachers likewise have gone thru background checks before being entrusted with dozens of young lives daily.
No $.
Just let the 2nd Amendment do its thing.
Great idea, if the teacher is a hired vet, the down side, one nervous breakdown and................CNN goes ape$#!t, No guns for anyone.
It was no different in the mid-late 60’s-in the rural ranching area I grew up in, just about every pickup truck in the lot at the HS had at least one rifle in the rack during deer season because you’d either gone hunting early AM before school or you intended on going as soon as school let out-before I had a vehicle, I rode to school with an older cousin and both our deer rifles were in the rack if we were going hunting after school-the guns were not even noticed or commented on unless it was just to ask where the person was going to hunt-never was a school shooting...
My cub was on the rifle team at the rural school she went to in the 80’s-she was one of 6 girls on the team-still no school shootings there...
This is genius!
1. It would actually work.
2. It splits the teacher’s union right down the middle.
3. There should be extra pay, and it can come from a Department of Education grant. States that implement get extra money, states that don’t go hungry.
4. It pressures the “may issue” states. Especially if we word it correctly so that the carry permit must be the very same one issued to the general public.
Libs will happily sacrifice the lives of innocent children to further their own twisted ideology. They don’t care about the safety of children, they care about disarming us. If they really believed gun control worked, they would have passed it when they had iron fisted control of all three branches of government.
More proof that President Trump was the right man at the right time. Thank Divine intervention for that.
They deserve extra money if they volunteer to stand on the front lines between attackers and innocent children. Good on Trump!
Not only would the teachers gun help protect his students in a crisis, it would protect his own life. I would to it for no extra charge if they paid for all my necessary training and fees.
Teachers are employed under collective bargaining arrangements which generally do not support changes based on priorities other than seniority or college credentials.
The chance that districts and unions will rewrite contracts to support this is ... slight, shall we say.
Perhaps a private individual or group could pay, however.
Used to be here in Michigan until it became a "Shall Issue" state in 2001 and they added the school gun free zones.
I believe he sincerely wants to get this solved, and NOT through gun control. MAGA!
Private school teachers are not burdened with such nonsense. They are, however, restricted by the "gun free school" laws.
WHOSE money? You're awfully free with my hard-earned cash.
Start paying people for exercising their rights, and taxpayers will have just cause to enact various stupid conditions thereon.
Just taking down the "no weapons" signs, and not prohibiting teacher CCW, would pretty much solve the problem. 
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