Teachers Shred Trump's Bullsh*t Proposal For Guns in Classrooms: "This Is Ridiculous"

On Feb. 21, President Trump hosted a listening session at the White House to address the survivors and family members of those affected by the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida. During the gathering, while seated between survivors of the deadly incident, POTUS posed a solution to thwarting future school shooters: arming teachers with concealed weapons. Yes, you read that correctly.

Trump defended his claim by bringing up Aaron Feis, the football coach who sacrificed his life to save three students during the Parkland school shooting. "If the coach had a firearm in his locker when he ran at this guy — that coach was very brave, saved a lot of lives, I suspect — but if he had a firearm he would not have had to run. He would have shot and that would be the end of it," Trump said, according to the Washington Post. He followed this up by suggesting that 20 percent of schoolteachers are armed, and that veterans are hired to act as armed guards on school grounds.

"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 be a gun-free zone," Trump said. He followed this up my arguing that an armed teacher on school premises could defend against a school shooter faster than responding police officials.

On Feb. 22, the day following the White House listening session, Trump took to Twitter to further reiterate that he was proposing concealed weapons only for "adept teachers with military or special training experience," rather than all teachers in the US. Twenty percent of teachers "would now be able to immediately fire back if a savage sicko came to a school with bad intentions," he explained in a series of tweets. "Highly trained teachers would also serve as a deterrent to the cowards that do this . . . If a potential "sicko shooter" knows that a school has a large number of very weapons talented teachers (and others) who will be instantly shooting, the sicko will NEVER attack that school. Cowards won't go there . . . problem solved."

Regardless of what percentage or level of training Trump was suggesting for this "solution," a host of current and former educators had plenty to say about the proposal, with many tearing it to shreds as a bogus solution. Ahead is just a sampling of teachers who've spoken out and candidly voiced their opinions about the possibility of being armed in a classroom.