text us and say hey, before a student gets to school, he s not having a good day today. so arming your school with a counselor, arming your school with a school psychologist, these are positions that people are trained to be able to get to know a student, and so we re able to have that. we also have a school resource officer. the kids actually know him and actually get to talk to him. sounds like you ve created a kind of familial a family feel. public charter school right here in d.c., appreciate it. we ll be right back. that binge watch over the weekend thing. more checking in.. or checking out things. no no no no no no no. that triple-double thing. doing it yourself or tagging a friend thing. more revolutions in the making thing. that play like a girl thing. that four-legged friends thing. at&t gives you more for your thing. more entertainment, internet, and unlimited plans. more for your thing. yeah, that s our thing.
to become a teacher. i want to teach. a police officer and a teacher have two different mind sets. a teacher wants to be there to support a student. however, a police officer has a total different mind set. so for me personally, i would not carry a gun. i think it also takes away from what you re doing as a teacher. a teacher has a million and one things to do. grading papers. calling parents. so the last thing you want to be is a correction officer trying to follow up on a teacher. i think about other casualties that will come behind that. so for me what do you mean by that? for me thinking about casualties as we ve had several moments within, you know, african-american community. we have other casualties in schools where teachers may have felt threatened and it wasn t a real threat. we had other things in school. so i wouldn t do it then. i also think about the person carrying a gun. if i m responsible going into a hallway to shoot a gun, a 6 1
the massacre at marjorie dougman high school is reintensifying the gun debate. bump stocks can turn semiautomatic weapons into rapid fire guns. we want to be very powerful, very strong on background checks and especially as it pertains to the mentally ill. we re going to get rid of bump stocks and do certain other things. the debate first surfaced in the wake of the los angeles shooting rampage last october. the lone gunman was armed with 12 rifles equipped with bump stocks. the national rifle association says it supports the ban but congress has been slow to act. joining me right now, avery freeman, a civil rights attorney and law professor and richard herman, a new york criminal defense attorney and law professor. good to see you both. hi, fred.
following the parkland shooting, that listening session, brandon was there. you said the president in that conversation, you told him actually that you do have, you know, checkpoints at your school. you ve got metal detectors that greet the students there. does that system, mr. thompson, i should say, you know, make you feel more comfortable and your students more comfortable? i think that the key thing for us at our school, friendship, where we have such a family feel, and so we have armed ourselves, our school has armed ourselves with school counsel counselor, school psychologist. so knowing our students within the classroom, outside the classroom, so huge thing for us was the checkpoints. when our students walk into the door, they re greeted. they re also there where we re able to have counselors and psychologists and student other student representatives to
be there to also be able to instill certain things in them. so i think for us at our school, we are armed to be able to know our students and pretty much know what s going on with them. in the case of parkland, they seem to know this young man. there were a lot of red flags that fellow students, teachers, had let authorities know about it. but when you heard the president directly while you were in that listening session at the white house say he proposes arming teachers with weaponry, you were a social studies teacher at that school just two years ago. if you were asked to, you know, pack a weapon going to school, a, what would your reply be? and then, b, you know, how does that impact i guess your approach to teaching? so personally for me, i would not carry a gun. i went to school. i was educated, went to college