just how expose donald trump could be. and later, for a moment of silence to boycotting the national anthem, at the sports world is stepping up to protest gun violence in the wake of the school school shooting. will it make a difference? good sunday morning to you. i am katie fang. some people would have you believe that our two political parties are two sides of the same coin, and that both want the best for america. but they just are different views on what that looks like. with that in mind, let s take a look at the title of two presidents in the face of a major tragedy. president biden, with the first lady, is preparing to fly to uvalde, texas. to face parents who have experienced the worst tragedy, losing a child. biden knows where this feels, like and is for his empathy. trump, glorifying violence that killed those 19 children into teachers. he held the names of the victims then had a glock, then ended his speech by doing a strange onstage dance. look at it like
bring in randi weingarten, she s the president of the american federation of teachers. randi, good morning and thank you for being here. first, i want your reaction to that florida sheriff s proposal. he saying we should arm the custodians. the maintenance staff, the librarians, the teach various. he says that s his first line of defense on school campuses. what s going on? so let s just, let s just unpack this for a minute. teachers don t want to be armed. frankly, most people in schools, you know, talk to anybody in a school for five minutes, they ll tell you what s a rotten idea this is. in second, anyone who says that actually doesn t know schools. as abby clements one of the survivors from newtown says, what if he went, would if that shooter went left instead of right? he would ve gotten to her classroom. you think about ar-15s. you can shoot 100 bullets in a
those are people that don t have any responsibility to attend those 30 or 25 children there in the class. but wait. i thought republicans didn t even trust librarians to hand out books. the right books. but now they want to give him guns? as far as teachers go, a 2019 survey found that a whopping 95% of teachers do not want to be armed in schools. the former principal of columbine high school explains to us why. when i encounter the gunman on april 20th in he s pointing a gun at me and he s getting ready to shoot me and these girls, if i was armed, i don t know if i could have shot that person because he was one of my students. and i would ve tried to talk him down or reason and in doing that, that mentality, having that mind mentality. that would put the girls in danger. and when i talk to law enforcement people, they basically say when we come in and we see a perpetrator, we re going to stop the killing. for more on this, i want to
if a kid is having questions about themselves, we want to make sure that they are welcoming. bringing guns into schools is the exact opposite. and so why would we do that? when even the shooter drills have created trauma for kids which is by the reason why every town and we said maybe we should actually think about how we re doing these active shooter drills. and not create an active shooter drill just create how we get kids out of the school. so it just there is an issue here. we have to get guns out of schools. we have to get guns out of the hands of kids for young adults or adults who ought not have them. and there s lots of ways to do that. so let s get to the common ground of that instead of trying to make this a teacher problem or a student problem or apparent problem.
minute, less than? that you think about these kids, these young adults, these 18 year olds with body armor on. what are we doing here? locking more doors, having less entry during covid we needed to open windows, we need to open doors, we need more ventilation. what happens in terms of fire drills? every one of these ideas it s about getting more guns in the schools when gun violence is the number one reason for kids deaths. why don t we try something new and responsible gun owners are saying the same thing? let s get less of these serious weapons of war off the street. let s get them out of the hands of 18 year olds. let s actually try to make schools safe welcoming places of learning that they should be. and trust teachers with books and with teaching kids and meeting their needs as opposed