in maryland, they have proven that the second amendment does not protect these types of weapons. they have banned over 45 different kinds of assault weapons, including the ar. the second amendment, i believe, was for defense and i fully respect that, like i said. but these these are not weapons of defense. these are weapons of war. that was sam zeif student at marjory stoneman douglas high school today. joining us now is a science teacher and marjory stoneman douglas and paula reed, a teacher at columbine high school, she s been a teacher there since 1996. shawn simpson, i want to start with you. feel free, i mean this to both of you, to share any thoughts you have about this, i don t mean to control what you have to
yes. matthew, i m out of the building. have you met the cops yet? we want to bring that student in. sam zeif, a senior at marjory stoneman douglas high school and his father, doug zeif. sam, we heard what you were talking about yesterday with the president. do you get some sense that you were heard and that you ve been heard in this whole matter? is there some sense that there will be some work to fix what happened last week? well, i know i was heard because i saw it on trump s little card, i hear you, but i don t think i was felt by him. honestly, i m confident, seeing the impact that my group and i and the other people at the white house have made since yesterday, gives me a lot of confidence in us. a lot more than i had the day before. you must be making an impact because they re calling you and some of your colleagues crisis
do you feel safe? not entirely yet. we re going to be looking over them. i know the community of parkland, sheriff scott israel, everybody is coming together to guarantee their safety. i d imagine that nobody is going to go back into that building. that building needs to be torn down, in my opinion, and replaced with whatever for the moment. but, look, sam is getting ready to graduate. a lot of these kids are. somehow, they need to find a place for this. you can never put it aside, but find a real place for it. they still need no continue on with their lives and pearsevere in honor of the people who have fallen and given their lives so sam can be here to talk to you, and also to make a difference in our society. because we need it to be different. the adults have failed our children. we have failed them. yeah. we re really impressed by the job that these kids are doing in representing those who don t have a voice anymore, including sam, your best friend, 17-year-old joaquin oliver.
suggested that some teachers, teachers that have gun training, should possibly carry guns in school. sam? well oh, sorry. i ve said earlier, it is absurd, that teachers should have to be questioned whether they should take the responsibility of holding a firearm during class, while having to mold young lives and mentor and love them. my teacher was in front of me the whole time, protecting me, because she loved me. do you think that they deserve to feel that, at any time, they ll have to kill one of their students, a shootout in our classroom? what happens if they think a student is going to do something, but they don t really know, and they want to take the first step? then teachers are killing kids because they re scared. sam, i want to ask you, because i read your texts the day after the shooting on
the families grieving the loss of their children, the loss of their spouse, the loss of their brother, sister and fiance, and the loss of their parent. that s where mental health matters. this is strictly a sensible gun control matter that needs to be addressed. i m all for the second amendment. i know sam is, as well. but i guarantee you, our founding fathers never, ever imagined that it would come to this. they would be rolling over in their graves, god bless them, if they knew what was occurring in the united states right now. sensible gun control. semiautomatic weapons off the streets. high capacity magazines off the streets. that s a step. the other step is, of course, safe schools. we need that tomorrow. we need that so sam can go back to school and his classmates and teachers on tuesday and be safe and not have to look over their shoulders. what does safe schools mean to you? at the meeting, the president