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Today funerals were held for a nine year old hallie scrubs an cynthia peak, a 61-year-ol substitute teacher who dedicated her life to education. evelyn de casts was the firs victim to be laid to rest on friday they nine-year-old have plan to spend the day s thinkin what a wonderful world in school play. instead, her family remembered her as a beacon of light and hope this is all just so sad. you know it is teachers and th students that are at the cente of a very first debate to make firearms even more accessible. you have republican lawmaker at the state and nationa levels, pushing for legislatio to arm more school staff and expand open carry policies democrats are fighting bac saying, arming educators is no the answer joining us now, is congresswoman shoshanna haye of connecticut she serves on the hous education and labor committee, we must note that congresswoma hayes was the 2016 nationa
Is for wednesday and it is a day of reflection and a day of sharing. not necessarily a day of classes, right? reporter: absolutely. we know that it is going to be a partial schedule. and so i think the main thing is that they want the kids to come back to school and they want them to be comfortable. these kids that are coming back to school, you have to keep in mind, this school really was frozen in time. since valentine s day when this shooting happened,s kid kids left their belongings behind and they want them to be comfortable and they have the emotional support and dogs an counselors and it is about easing back into it. tammy leitner, thank you for your reporting today and every day. we appreciate it. president trump doubled down on his proposal to prevent school shootings by arming educators. politicians on both sides of the aisle have bristled at the suggestion that more guns in school means less violence. but let s put that part of the
Other lawmakers are willing to make changes. on the issue of arming educators or other personal at school, our colleague hallie jackson had a questioning with raj shaw in for sarah huckabee sanders about this issue and what it would cost and how it would be done. there are some districts that don t have enough money to give teachers the school supplies they need so how are schools to pay for bonuses for armed teachers. i think we are looking at school safety measures. there is a policy piece to this and a legislative piece. i think those are [ inaudible question ]. and there is a budgetary piece. if we find the policy solutions that make the most sense we could get by and for we ll figure out the rest. reporter: and raj saw saying would it be too great of a price to pay if in fact taking this measurer of measure of arming teachers could be successful. so leaving that door wide open. in addition to the other ideas
Measure of support for arming educators. i want to throw up the gallup poll. 64% of americans agree with you. arming one school official would be effective. a poll taken shows 54% of americans view the the national rifle association in a favorable light. so the idea of putting some fire power in schools seems to be gaining traction, but my question to you is why stop there? why not focus on some additional gun control, as well, perhaps extending waiting periods and limiting ammunition and a ban on semiautomatics. can you see those in addition to arming teachers, as well? if i thought that banning a specific type of firearm would help, i would be all for it, but i know for a fact, it doesn t. they have strict gun control laws in connecticut. here in utah, we ve been doing this for 12 years and this is nothing new and we have one of the most permissive states for firearms and we haven t had school shootings either. you mentioned the ban on