President Donald Trump suggested Tuesday that teachers who previously served as “distinguished” military service members should be able to carry weapons at schools in the event of a shooting.
The president’s statement comes less than a week after the deadly mass shooting at Annunciation Catholic Church and its affiliated school in Minneapolis.
“We have great teachers that love our children,” Trump said in the Oval Office during a Space Force-related announcement. “If you took a small percentage of those teachers that were in the military, that were distinguished in the military, that were in the National Guard … and you let them carry, that’s something that a lot of people like. I sort of liked it.”
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