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
to making us warriors. in terms of armed police. randy, you heard that sound, the former principal of columbine, he really put into perspective for us just how hard this can be for teachers. if the burden to fire at a shooter falls on them. and we even heard him say, what if it s actually one of the students at the school? i know they are also having that senate because you re pointing out that even if trained officers in uvalde couldn t say the students, what is supposed to be done i m just saying that it just shows a complete either misunderstanding or deflection of who we are and where we do. and you think about this, i was just in texas, i was in houston with a roundtable of kids and survivors and parents and teachers. we want to teach kids, we want to be trusted with curriculum, we want to be trusted with our selection of books. we want to meet kids needs.
randy, i have a little bit less than a minute left. i want to ask you, you wrote in a tweet recently, things are different, people really want action. what s different this time around? we all thought change was coming after the tragedy in sandy hook and look where we still find ourselves. so i think katy you have to, i spent a lot of time in communities all across the country. number one, i m hearing from members all, teachers, all across the country, not only are they really but they re saying to me, what can we do to act? tell me what i can do right now. and then with parents, with david hogg, i was with others. let s find common ground. yes, we re all angry, we re all reeling. those kids, those parents, those grandmothers in buffalo. they re never coming back. but let s find the common ground with responsible gun owners who want to actually make this different. that s what i hear from people. let s find the common ground.
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