He never went in, Sheriffs Deputy only armed guard on campus during a deadly shooting in high school, quote never went into the building when the shooting was taking place. That was according to sheriff israel of Broward County who described how he felt as he watched the video of the deputy do absolutely nothing as the gunman killed 17 people. Devastated. Sick to my stomach. There are no words l i mean, these families lost their children. We lost coaches h ive been to the funerals. Ive been to the homes where they sit and shiver. Ive been to the vigils. Its just there are no words. Well, that deputy Scott Peterson, he resigned today. The irony this news coming on the same day that President Trump doubled down on his call to arm the nations teachers as a way to combat mass shootings
in schools. I think a concealed permit for having teachers and letting people know there are people in the building with a gun, you wont have, in my opinion, you wont have these shootings. Because these people with cowards. They wont walk into a school if 20 of the teachers have guns. It may be 10 . It may be 40 . And what i would recommend doing is the people that do carry, we give them a bonus. We give them a little bit of a bonus. So practically for free you have now made the school into a hardened target. Well, lets think about that for a minute. There are roughly 3. 5 million teachers in the United States today. That according to the department of education. 40 would mean 1. 4 million teachers in this country would be armed under the president s plan. The idea sparked outrage immediately from Stoneman DouglasHigh School Students to even republican senators. To arm every like to arm
any teacher, they are there to teach. We dont need to put guns in the hands of teachers. I dont believe teachers should be armed. I believe teachers should teach the notion my kids are dwog to school with teachers that are armed with a weapon is not something that quite frankly im comfortable with. I might say the same as a dad as well. Well, even as trump proposes teachers carry weapons in the classroom, the president says that he opposed to preparing teachers and students with active Shooter Drills. Active Shooter Drills is a very negative thing. Ill be honest with you. I mean if im a child and im ten years old and they say we are going to have an active shooter drill, i say whats that. People may come in and shoot you. I think thats a very negative thing to be talking about to be honest with you. Lets go to martin savage, in parkland, florida with the Breaking News on that sheriffs department. Really, martin only Armed Officer on campus, never went into the building where the shooting was taking place. What are you learning tonight about what happened . Reporter its an additional horrific turn in the narrative, jim. And, remember, just a couple of days ago that these families who lost their children wrl told by the fbi that they had received a tip that they had failed to act on. Now on top of that, they are being told there was an Armed Officer, the School Resource officer, a trained veteran Sheriffs Deputy in uniform with aside arm standing outside the building where the shootings are taking place, and that officer, Scott Peterson, did not do anything according to scott israel which is Broward County sheriff. They said they are launching an investigation. Asked for his resignation. Instead he is it resigning and going into retirement. But it is a horrible turn of events. Questions have been raised about Scott Peterson eversince the shooting on campus especially for the families who had lost children. Now it appears the time that he was waiting outside, the only
president did comments on twitter, that he believes will make schools safer. Also heard him say he wants to get rid of though at the same time active Shooter Drills. How serious is he about that step . Reporter well, jim, there was certainly one stripping of consistent thought in the president s view on what should be done here. First, he voiced a lot of concern and ideas on social media. Then again during a Listening Session with state and local officials. And one theme was to have more guns in schools. He said Gun Free Zones in school, sign outside that says Gun Free Zone is a welcome mat, if you will for shooters. Sew said that school officials, coaches or teachers should be armed if they are prepared for that. He said not all of them, of course, will want to do it. But he talked about again and again about School Teachers being armed. Its a deterrent. But we have all heard suicide by cop. This is what shooters do. This if played out would be suicide by History Teacher perhaps. It does not make a lot of sense to republicans in this town, democrats in this town who want to do something about this. But the president also was outlining a variety of different things. Thing to keep an eye on, he said the age limit to buy these weapons he believes should go from 18 to 21. That is at odds with the nra. So that is one place he would potentially confront the nra it would be on that. But it was the Teacher Proposal the president talked about today again and again that certainly raised eyebrows at the white house. No question, jeff zeleny there at the white house. Outfront lets ask teachers. Sharon learner is teacher in Stoneman Douglas high school in parkland where the faculty and students were killed. And hes offering free concealed carry training to local teachers around the country. Sarah, if i could begin with
you. You were in your classroom with stud ent students when shooting started at Stoneman Douglas. You lost two students. He heard the president to to be armed if you have aptitude, as he described t is thatit. Is that a good idea . No, i have no desire to own a gun, shoot a gun, carry a gun, touch a gun. I dont think my coming to school with a gun would have changed anything. I wasnt in the building. Im in building six, not building 12. So if i would have been on campus with a gun, there would have literally been nothing for me to do. Now, i know you initially, as i understand it, you started leaving the building where you were, which as you said was a separate building. Yes. When the gunman pulled the fire alarm. Once you heard the shooting ran back into your class room hold up there for i understand for more than two hours along with
several of your students until s. W. A. T. Arrived. Yes. Was there ever a moment in there had you had a gun you might have felt safer . No. No. Because hi i i dont need to have a gun to keep my safe. I knew the s. W. A. T. Team, fbi, broward sheriffs office, local offices were here securing the campus and keep me safe. That made me feel safe. If i had begun in my classroom with 15 students, i wouldnt have used it. I didnt see the shooter. I heard the shots when i went outside. But having a gun would do me no good. If anything, if i had a gun on campus, it would have been locked in my closet, and if somebody had come in the room, in the time it would take me to get my keys and open my closet i would would be dead. Sheriff, i know you are no
stranger, you had experience, 15yearold wounded four other students opening fire in cafeteria in one of your schools just last year. But i understand you agree with the president . I agree with the president. Or lets say the president agrees with me. We had a school shooting. I have talked to teachers in the school where we had the school shooting. They would have liked to have a gun. We are not talking about everybody having a weapon. The teacher you have on here i can understand if you are not comfortable with a weapon and trained, i agree with her. But still the teachers are being shot. Kids are being shot. Within five minutes the shooting is over. 8 minutes the police are there. The only thing you can do is hide and wait. We have to train. Teachers should be trained at least to see a gun, no what it looks like, sounds like, what to do. They should be trained in first aid. We arrested two yesterday one said they would beat the 17 number. One said they were going to do
shooting. The day after the shooting we arrested five just in our local area. Thats just here not the whole United States. Let me ask you this. We had a test case of this, did we not at parkland. Because there was an armed school research, Resource Officer, sor as we know, trained uniformed guard, who didnt do anything. And listen i dont want to attack this one person too much. I spoke to a u. S. Retired u. S. General tonight who commanded troops in iraq and said that reaction to violence is not uncommon. I mean, if the Armed Trained UniformedSecurity Guard at parkland didnt do it, why would we expect teachers like sarah or others to be that Frontline Responder . I wouldnt expect sarah to be a Frontline Responder. I would expect, when you have people like the officer there, just imagine if we had some teachers in the school that were certified and trained, we would at least have somebody in that school with a weapon. But there was someone in the school with weapon. Please. They didnt go in. We had an officer in our school with a weapon also. He was in the cafeteria. And when he waited for him and the principal to leave the cafeteria, then the kid jumped up and shot four people, emptied weapon out, 15 years old. You need backup in the schools. Officers arent always the answer. You need someone twout a weapon that can be trained. When people say go ahead. Lets give sarah a chance because shes in the classroom. Sarah, what do you think . Sure. Okay. So just for argument sake, sheriff, if i were to have a gun and carry it at school and this happened in the cafeteria where i am not, how am i helping . If someone comes into my classroom and im on the other side of the room not near ply gun, how is the gun going to
help keep me safe . Hes going to shoot me before i can access my gun . Sheriff, how do you answer that . Youll be shot anyway. Youll probably going to be shot anyway. Students will be shot. Only thing you can do is beg for your life or wait for the police to get there. You have people that are trained. So if im going to be shot anyway, then why do i need to car ka carry a gun . Because youll save the lives of other students. If you had the gun you wouldnt be shot. That doesnt make sense. Thats not necessarily true, sir. We agree to disagree. We do agree to disagree. Because i dont think that Arming Teachers one at a time, so the audience can follow. Sheriff, go ahead, and then sarah, trust me i want to give me your due. But sheriff if you can complete your shot. Okay. Sure, i talked to a teacher in Florida Today who said shes okay with weapons in school. She personally doesnt want a weapon. We have people that are trained with weapons before they become teachers and School Boards have to approve the weapons in the school. And here in ohio i had 300 teachers sign up in less than eight hours that want to be trained in firearms and want to have guns. So when people say that they dont want guns, the teachers dont want to be armed, sure there are those. But just as many that wanted to be harmed and should be. Lets give sarah a chance to respond. Yes, sir. I believe the overwhelming majority of teachers do not want to be armed. And the president said that those of us who would be willing to be armed would get some kind of a bonus h im not even given adequate money to buy supplies for my classroom. But now if i choose to carry a gun, a gun will be provided for me and ill be given a bonus . I would rather see all of that money go to having more Security Personnel on my campus. Giving me more money in my
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media, eager to blame the nra and call for even more government control. They hate the nra. Outfront now is former adviser to the Trump Campaign, steve cortes and former Clinton White house aide steve boy ton. If i can begin there with the argument folks supporting gun control, brings in the media as well, are somehow just pursuing antinra gaepd. Do you think thats a fair argument with any discussion of gun control after a shooting like this . No, i think its part of it. Because i think its telling how quickly people immediately and particularly people in politics and media how quickly they try to blame the nra for this tragedy. And in fact the nra has brn diligently working to try to prevent these kinds of tragedies through things like arming our schools properly. I believe and the nra believes its outrageous in america that our priorities are so misplaced that we grd our money and our
jewels and Office Buildings with Armed Security but not our precious children. And that has to change. Keith, that was a comparison the president made today about banks and others. And he even talked about gun free campuses being Something Like ice cream compared the students to ice cream. Do you think the nra is doing as steve says its best to protect area students. I think they are doing their best to protect nra and people continue to own guns and stockpile weapons. I dont think they are trying to protect the students. I dont think against. But thats not their my yort. Priority is to their millions of members. The reality is President Trump received money from the nra. Rubio received money from nra. And nra is using influence to present those ideas to them and block any kind of legislation that would prove common sense gun reform that most americans
support. Most americans support universal background checks, and banning bump stocks, support things like raising the age for owning these deadly weapons. But the nra wont allow members of congress on their side to do anything about it. Steve, thats an issue where the president and nra, there is daylight between them. On the age, 18 and 21 president might support that on bump stock ban. Can you see the president following through even in defiance of a powerful Lobbying Group like nra . Yes. And the nra hasnt said what they believe about the age definition. But the president is willing to go up against nra in that case. When we t