President Trump followed up on the listening portion of a 'listening session' that Washington hosted for the families of school shooting victims on Wednesday (February 21) by proposing solutions to such massacres that are sure to rile up opposition from one base or another. In fact, there has already been a strong rebuke from the nation's largest teacher's union to the radical ideas that schools be manned by armed military veterans and allow teachers to conceal and carry firearms.

“If you had a teacher with, who was adept at firearms, they could very well end the attack very quickly,” Trump told those packing the White House's State Dining Room. He conceded that the administration doesn't expect that such a plan would be popular with everybody, but contended that allowing for the training of teachers to carry, while stripping schools of their gun-free zone status, would be an ideal way of protecting children from future tragedies.

“This would only obviously be for people who are very adept at handling a gun," he said, as Vice President Mike Pence, education Director Betsy DeVos, and dozens of men, women, and teens who lost loved ones in Columbine, Sandy Hook, and now Parkland, looked on. Trump also added that he is exploring how best to address mental illness, and looking to strengthen background checks for consumers looking to purchase guns.

The proposals drew mixed reactions, but the president of the National Education Association, Eskelsen Garcia, was unwavering and far from ambivalent on her stance concerning the possibility of having more guns on school campus'. "Bringing more guns into our schools does nothing to protect our students and educators from gun violence. Our students need morre books, art and music programs, nurses and school counselors; they do not need more guns in their classrooms," she issued a statement that said.

Source: youtu.be