After shooting in Florida – Trump for arming teachers

US President Trump with survivors of the Florida school shooting (AFP)

Schoolchildren demonstrated in front of the Capitol for stricter gun laws. In the White House, the President gathered hand-picked teachers, parents and students in a circle of chairs. In the stiff atmosphere of a hall in the east wing, the President asked his guests what recommendations they would make in the fight once morest gun violence in schools.

However, the president himself has already provided a solution: tighter controls on gun owners. More intensive observation of mentally unstable buyers.

Those who weren’t present at the president’s hearing were the students who formed a protest front once morest the lax gun laws following the Parkland assassination. So no Emma Gonzales, no Cameron Karsky and no David Hogg in the White House – none of those students who want to demonstrate once morest the gun lobby and their political representatives in the Capitol on March 24 in a “March for our lives” in Washington. Instead, a young girl from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School politely thanks for the invitation to the White House and for the President’s strong leadership, she says.

Deadly weapons can be bought in every shop

Only one student – visibly moved and still under the impression of what happened in Parkland – raises the question of why these deadly semi-automatic weapons can be bought in every shop: they are weapons of war.

That’s the cue for a father who lost his daughter in Parkland a week ago.

Enraged, he calls for more security in America’s schools. Gun violence has nothing to do with gun laws – they are a completely different topic.

Guns on campus, teachers should be armed

His son assists. The father said: More security on the school grounds – that means more guns on campus.

Another gentleman is more specific: Teachers should be armed – and if in doubt, shoot back immediately.

This interjection no longer seems really spontaneous, at the latest when the gentleman confesses to having had lunch with Betsy deVos. Betsy deVos is Trump’s Minister of Education and she had already demanded on a right-wing talk radio last weekend: Arm the teachers.

Schools must not become the scene of wild shootings

Donald Trump likes the proposal. If the killed trainer, who saved lives through his exemplary willingness to make sacrifices, might have shot, the spook would have ended immediately, Trump claims.

And will be even more specific. The concept hot concealed weapons for selected and specially trained teachers. This would also put an end to the dangerous gun-free zones in front of and in the schools.

There is still a contradiction. Teachers have other things to do than practice deadly shots in the classroom, says the father of a girl who died in Sandy Hook. Schools should not become the scene of wild shootings.

Instead, the father pleads for prevention – for early detection of students who show unstable traits. Who come out as gun freaks. who exhibit suspicious behavior.

Now it remains to be seen what the results of Trump’s planned talks with security forces and state governors will be over the next few days.