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Arm the teachers!

It's Trump's solution to gun violence

AFP, Washington
US President Donald Trump suggested arming teachers to deter mass shootings as he faced broken voices, tears and demands for action at a meeting with survivors of the gun rampage that killed 17 people at a Florida high school.
Trump also promised "very strong" background checks on gun owners during the poignant "listening session" on Wednesday, in which he heard first-hand accounts from bereaved parents and friends, and schoolchildren who narrowly escaped with their own lives.
As he sat with these people, Trump was photographed holding a piece of paper with notes suggesting questions or other things to say to them.
As seen on the photographs, these included "What would you most want me to know about your experience?" and "I hear you." Social media lit up with criticism of Trump's apparent need for help in sounding compassionate to people who are suffering.
Trump's proposal to arm educators received a cool response, too, from a teacher who survived the shooting as well as the local sheriff at a town hall meeting in Florida.
“A gun-free zone, to a maniac -because they are all cowards - a gun-free zone is 'Let's go in and let's attack," Trump said.
"If you had a teacher who was adept at firearms, they could very well end the attack very quickly," Trump said, suggesting that 20 percent of a school's teachers could be trained to carry concealed weapons.
"This would only be obviously for people who are very adept at handling a gun," Trump added.
The televised White House meeting came as students staged street protests across the country to demand stricter gun laws following the murder of 14 teens and three teachers at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.
Holding signs reading "Never Again" and "Be The Adults, Do Something," teenaged survivors of last Wednesday's shooting rallied outside the Florida state Capitol inTallahassee.
The White House meeting was attended by Stoneman Douglas students, their parents and also the parents of victims of the Columbine, Sandy Hook and other shootings.
Andrew Pollack, whose 18-year-old daughter Meadow was among the Stoneman Douglas victims, told Trump he was there "because my daughter has no voice. She was murdered last week."
"We protect airports. We protect concerts, stadiums, embassies," Pollack said, his voice seething with rage. "I can't get on a plane with a bottle of water. But we leave some animal to walk into a school."
Samuel Zeif, who lost a close friend at Stoneman Douglas last Wednesday, said it was important to "be strong for the fallen who don't have a voice to speak anymore."
"Let's never let this happen again. Please," he told the president, later adding: "I don't understand why I can still go in a store and buy a weapon of war."
Urgent calls for action following the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre, which left 20 children and six teachers dead in Connecticut, failed to break the national deadlock on gun control.
But students have vowed to make the Parkland tragedy a turning point, with youths inspired on social media by the activism of their peers staging walkouts from high schools in Florida and elsewhere on Wednesday and demonstrating in cities including Minneapolis, Chicago and Washington.
Students are planning a march on Washington on March 24, with sister rallies planned across the country.
And students and teachers who survived the shooting challenged politicians over their positions on gun control at a town hall meeting in Florida.
Trump - who received strong backing from the NRA during his White House run - has shown a new-found willingness to take at least some steps on gun control following the Parkland shooting.
But his suggestion of arming teachers drew scorn at the town hall meeting.
Scott Israel, the local sheriff, announced that "deputies who are qualified and trained will be carrying rifles on school grounds,” but also pushed back against arming teachers.
"I don't believe teachers should be armed - I believe teachers should teach," Israel said.