Proposes arming teachers as solution to school shootings

At the listening session with Parkland survivors, Trump suggested the solution to school massacres was to give concealed weapons to teachers, arguing "if you had a teacher ... who was adept at firearms, they could very well end the attack very quickly," a proposal widely criticized by educators and law enforcement as dangerous.

"If you had a teacher ... who was adept at firearms, they could very well end the attack very quickly." — White House listening session, February 21, 2018