still happened. that reality should be enough to finally dispense with the ridiculous anti gun safety bro mind, that the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. and yet, texas republicans response to the massacre is familiar. one that says, more people with guns always, more people with the guns. there s no doubt we need to do more to keep children in school safe, we know from past experience that the most effective tool for keeping kids safe, is armed law enforcement on the campus. we can potentially arm and prepare and train teachers and other administrators. texas republicans have repeatedly and consistently pushed policies to increase the number of guns in their state. just a year, ago the texas governor, greg abbott, signed seven bills into law, all designed to make it easier to purchase and carry a gun in texas.
mental health programs in a state that is already dead last in the country for access to mental health care. abbott certainly has an approach providing mental health services with the same zeal as sure making every texan who wants to carry a gun can do so at any time. he went to the alamo to sign 7 new gun rights laws including one constitutional carry. allowing texans to carry a handgun in public without a permit or training. in 2017 donald trump as president made it easier with those with mental health issues to get a gun. so republicans haven t walked the walk there. then there s the argument number two. here is texas attorney general ken paxton. we can prepare and train teachers and other
the most effective tool for keeping kids safe is our law enforcement on the campus. to make sure we have armed security agents there. at least one, for every elementary school in the entire country. we can potentially harm and prepare and train teachers and other administrators. retired military enforcement outside the perimeter of every school in the country. i don t know any other way to keep kids safe. he doesn t know any other way to keep kids safe. most of the voices you just heard and much of this refrain is coming from people who are not starting from scratch and questioning how to keep kids safe but rather are starting from a pre-ordained idea logical and partisan nra-back view that doesn t allow for any gun safety rules whatsoever. which is different, by the way, than many gun owner groups said even just say 30 years ago. so if you take all those
actually do to improve school security with former fbi agent john and the director of national association of school resource officers, mo kennedy. thank you, both, gentlemen, for being with us tonight. thank you for having me. thank you. shannon: here s what we have to. texas attorney general paxton talking about what they do in texas, the proposals for arming people in schools and those kind of conversations. we can create access that s difficult to get through. we can potentially arm, prepare and train teachers and other administrators to respond quickly, because the reality is we don t have the resources to have law enforcement at every school. shannon: mo, this is your area of expertise. what are the concrete things we can do right now. well, we know that we have certainly had situations where school resource officers carefully selected and specifically trained law enforcement officers assigned in schools have actually been able to
asian and more white, and that is the reason being given. there has been quite a bit o controversial debate about this leading up to the decision. here he is announcing integrate i will get your thoughts on the other side. we are saying we are going t train teachers and prepare schools to actually reach you a a child, and bring out your gifts and abilities that would have been ignored if you were not accepted into one of those very small very exclusives gifted and talented programs previously. so they are responding to th scrapping of this program and said that these are not privileged wealthy parents, these are working parents who want to challenge their kids. how is putting kids out of gifted and talented programs going to solve racial segregation? punishing kids who want to exce is wrong. as i understand it, they are going to correct me if i m wrong , they are going to let those that are currently in the program finish up in the program