Of the parents and teachers and students hes being hearing from . Or merely echo the latest voice in his here which happens to speak for much of his base, the National Rifle association. Tom friedman puts the question bluntly, will the president be able to lead . No question the president has in the last eight days seen and heard a lot that might affect his thinking, as have we all. He watched as we all did the full dimensions of the horror become known. He saw the vigils, thousands of classmates and students of the 17 fallen kids and staffers, friends, neighbors. He saw the students march to Florida State capital and heard their calls for gun control. He listened to raw emotional pleas at the white house. We need to do something. And thats why were here. So lets be strong for the fallen who dont have a voice to speak anymore. And lets never let this happen again. Please. Please. Well, if you watch our cnn town hall last night, the president saw so many powerful, moving, and deeply tho
From . Or merely echo the latest voice in his here which happens to speak for much of his base, the National Rifle association. Tom friedman puts the question bluntly, will the president be able to lead . No question the president has in the last eight days seen and heard a lot that might affect his thinking, as have we all. He watched as we all did the full dimensions of the horror become known. He saw the vigils, thousands of classmates and students of the 17 fallen kids and staffers, friends, neighbors. He saw the students march to Florida State capital and heard their calls for gun control. He listened to raw emotional pleas at the white house. We need to do something. And thats why were here. So lets be strong for the fallen who dont have a voice to speak anymore. And lets never let this happen again. Please. Please. Well, if you watch our cnn town hall last night, the president saw so many powerful, moving, and deeply thoughtful people confronting their elected officials, telling
outside of the building who did not respond as their children were being murdered. anderson? unbelievable. martin savidge, thank you very much. i want to talk more about this idea that the president seems to have latched on to, which he talked about and tweeted about today, arming teachers, training them, paying them bonuses for taking part. joining us now is ashley kurth, a teacher at stoneman douglas, and kent friesen, who taught at colum columbine, and mary ann jacob. ashley, you sheltered 65 students in your classroom during the shoot-out. you re a registered republican, you voted for donald trump, a strong second amendment supporter. do you wish you had a gun last week? do you want to be armed moving forward and trained? i can honestly say no. before the events that took place on wednesday, i might have been had a different sense of opinion and i was one of those teachers that, you know, some of the other schools i worked at thought, maybe, yeah, you know, having an armed or s
not respond as their children were being murdered. anderson? unbelievable. martin savidge, thank you very much. i want to talk more about this idea that the president seems to have latched on to, which he talked about and tweeted about today, arming teachers, training them, paying them bonuses for taking part. joining us now is ashley kurth, a teacher at stoneman douglas, and kent friesen, who taught at columbine, and mary ann jacob. ashley, you sheltered 65 students in your classroom during the shoot-out. you re a registered republican, you voted for donald trump, a strong second amendment supporter. do you wish you had a gun last week? do you want to be armed moving forward and trained? i can honestly say no. before the events that took place on wednesday, i might have been had a different sense of opinion and i was one of those teachers that, you know, some of the other schools i worked at thought, maybe, yeah, you know, having an armed or something