Donald Trump offers to arm teachers in schools to combat gun violence

Praying at the beginning of the meeting at the White House

USA - President Trump plans to arm school and college teachers with guns to combat the shootings in America. The president invited victims of the Florida shooting to the White House who shared their grief and asked the President to done to stop the use of guns by members of the public.

Here is an excerpt of what Trump said at the meeting:

Showing empathy'...we don't want others to go through the kind of pain that you've gone through,' 

The president broached the topic of armed guards in school, adding,

'I think a lot of people are going to be opposed to it. A lot of people are going to like it. But the good thing is that you'll have a lot of people with that. 

'You know, you can't have 100 security guards in Stoneman Douglas. That's a big school, that's a massive school with a lot of acreage to cover, a lot of floor area,'

'So that would be certainly a situation that is being discussed a lot by a lot of people. You would have a lot of people that would be armed. They would be ready. They are professionals. They may be Marines – that left the Marines, left the Army, left the Air Force – and they are very adept at doing that.'  

The discussion with parents and teachers connected to the Parkland, Florida, shooting included more than a dozen student survivors who also urged Trump to take action. 

Parents and students affected by the Sandy Hook and Columbine shootings were in the room, as well, alongside local teachers and students talked about D.C.'s local crime problem. 

The president spoke briefly at the top, and sympathetically asked questions several times in the middle of the meeting that aired live on national television, working off of notes that prompted him to ask, 'What would you most want me to know about your experience' and 'What can we do to help you feel safe?' and 'I hear you.'

Hopefully soon the US will follow in the tracks of Australia and ban all guns used by civilians and control others who have access to them.