they are taking a voluntary step to make our kids safer, to make all of us safer at any public facility. is and i couldn t be happier. thank you and congratulations. what a steph. there look, you have been very vocal, activated since this happened. you will not have let your daughter die in vain. it comes at a huge cost. what has it been like for you? i m exhausted. it so angered me that i immediately turned into an activist. 13 days ago i was just this guy from this amazing neighborhood here in parkland. and now i can t stop what i m doing because i don t want another parent to go with this. everybody who says i come to this with an agenda, anything but. my only agenda is what can we do
the nra. they re very close to me. i m close to them. so, he is saying one thing but will we get to the finish line? will we even get close to the finish line? i think it s very much to be seen. the other question, chris cillizza, they kept asking raj about this notion of arming teachers, especially to the level of a general john kelly. that was an excellent question there. how is that even feasible, that the money required in not only training them, giving them bonuses, as the president said, but continuing that training if they want to be armed, concealed carry. yep. so, raj s answer was, well, we ll find the money if it s going to keep kids safe. which is an okay answer. but i would say and we ll hear much more about this. i think it s a debate certainly whether it would keep kids safer. so that s one thing.
it is a week, we go into the debate tomorrow night and we talk about ted cruz is the leader. i don t even know how much donald trump s muslim ban certainly people will talk about it, but things move so quickly here, too. you know, that s the kind of story that could have just dominated this race for weeks and it seems like it is already starting to fade. what a great point you ve made, eli. thank you so much for joining us. coming up, a moment of silence was held across connecticut this morning marking three years since the sandy hook shooting that took the lives of 26 people, most of them children. well, now new numbers show nearly one child dies every two days from gun violence. that s 554 children since sandy hook. the question has anything changed to keep kids safer? we ll dig into those numbers when we come right back. ideas are scary. they come into this world ugly and messy.
a new push is under way the make school buses safer and more environmentally friendly, and part of the effort involves getting the buses running on propane out on the roads. 45 states are using 7,000 of these buses, and now joining me is a correspondent for today show and a member of p.e.r.c. yes. and jenna hagar bush, what got you interested? as a teacher, and now a mom, we want to make our kids safer, and you remember riding on the loud diesel buses from our childhood, and they are hard to have conversations with the bus driver, and safer and also better for the environment, and safer for kids, because you stand on line to get in the back with the big diesel fumes, and
situation where it can be available freely and in a regulatory regime. the point of the colorado initiative is safer. keep our kids safer. they can control it. you will never stop them from getting ahold of this or alcohol. but you can t have a seiner system whereby this is demystified and destigmatized. i don t know whether you have a problem with pleasure but i sure don t. but if more people have access to marijuana, more adults have legal access to it, doesn t that mean it will filter down to kids more readily? it s going to be somebody who, you know, buys i think one thing that will turn kids off pot is seeing their kids buy it. part of the appeal is it s subtrainian qualities. if it becomes like alcohol. which i agree can be abused.