SFGATE: Trump doubles down on arming teachers, defends NRA

Trump doubles down on arming teachers, defends NRA
Published on February 22, 2018 at 03:32PM by John Wagner and Jenna Johnson, The Washington Post

President Donald Trump on Thursday appeared to voice support for raising the age at which someone could buy an assault rifle to 21, and he doubled down on his idea of arming some teachers as a deterrent for school shootings. In a series of morning tweets, the president claimed the latter strategy would be far less costly than hiring guards and that "ATTACKS WOULD END!" With his tweets, Trump echoed solutions he pushed during a "listening session" at the White House that included family of some of the 17 people killed by a gunman last week at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in South Florida. "Highly trained, gun adept, teachers/coaches would solve the problem instantly, before police arrive," Trump said in one tweet.

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