on and on. this, of course, is a preposterous idea for nothing other than the reason that if the police do enter, they re going to shoot the first person they see who is shooting, whether that s a teacher or assailant. so, that is the most idiotic idea and he s had lots of them that we ve heard from him yet. and, of course, what do we see, a tragic story, the armed police officer who was at the school had a hand gun, did not go into the building, not acceptable, not what we prepare police officers to do. but he had a hand gun. one can understand not wanting to go up against a guy with an ar-15. how preprosterous is that. let me put up a poll. 97% of the public which includes pretty much everybody in the nra except for maybe 2%, supports universal background checks. the idea that nothing has happened is preposterous because even gun owners in this country support more than what the nra
teachers with their handguns would have to always know the exact movements of the other 27 teachers with their handguns so they don t fire in such a way that they could shoot each other. they would have to know where each of those 28 handguns are every second so that students don t get caught in the cross fire of those 28 handguns that donald trump imagines could have been fired at that shooter last week. usually when police officers respond to shooting incidents like that, they don t immediately run into the building and run toward the sound of the assault weapon. they coordinate, they have radio communication, they try not to make a move without knowing what every other armed police officer is doing, without know r where every other police officer is, they re covered in body armor and even covered in body armor, they don t immediately confront the shooter. you re not going to want to be the teacher running around the school with a handgun when the
sound of the assault weapon. they coordinate, they have radio communication, they try not to make a move without knowing what every other armed police officer is doing, without knowing where every other police officer is, they re covered in body armor and even covered in body armor, they don t immediately confront the shooter. you re not going to want to be the teacher running around the school with a handgun when the s.w.a.t. team enters that school looking for the mass murderer. there s a real risk that the teachers with the handgun would be shot by the s.w.a.t. team who don t know that those teachers are the good guys. the president obviously doesn t know what he s talking about. he didn t meet with some survivors and parents and victims of school shootings today to find a solution to the mass murder epidemic. he went in with written talking points written for him and he echoed those points.
many on the island are growing frustrated. they re trying to pick up the pieces of their lives. you cannot pick up the pieces of your life if you don t have power, infrastructure, fuel. not to forget people suffering still in places like texas and florida, but we cannot forget there are still huge swaths of people in puerto rico that aren t even accounted for yet. mariana ai tense owe is monitoring on the ground for us. mariana, there are really mixed messages coming. there s a whole bunch of people saying things are moving along well. but the closer we get to the ground, people are saying we don t have water, fuel, food, clear roads yet. reporter: ali, the only thing that has grown here are these lines. these lines for absolutely every basic thing you could imagine. we ve been standing in front of this line for bags of ice all morning. there s even an armed police officer here guarding the line
keep it as long as you want, but you don t want to, and the reason why is that the parisians and the belgians are not going to have it for that long. i think you can keep this pace up for a couple weeks and then i think in the end, by 90 days, it s got to start to tailor down. i think people are going to start to ease up also. psychologically, we re coming into the holidays. what will happen, i believe, is they ll start getting more comfortable with the presence of armed security and soldiers. what i think the europeans are going to get good at and they re going to have to, in any of these countries where they start hunting for these terrorists or are conducting operations, we re going to see a more plain clothes security apparatus. you can t spot the undercover police officer, which gives them the element of surprise if there s a terror attack because they can respond and nobody knows who they are, and two, you don t visually see the weapon, you don t see that highly trained, armed po