schools? teachers? so colorado has 940 or 950 schools, going to spend a million dollars a year on $800,000 a year paying guards and they are armed or training teachers. that money has got to come from somewhere. it will come out of teachers. and when i was mayor, my first four years i visited every public school in denver. no one told me there were 161. teachers don t want to carry guns. most don t. some do. but that wouldn t improve anything and it is very expensive and a huge amount of training. so those two things what is something else that you think colorado would do? before you leave? one of the things we re looking at in addition to bump stocks and looking at how can we get to a place where people are having mental health issue could be detained more than just 24 hours, but maybe 72 hours or if parents or immediate family member and we think they re a threat to themselves or to
the teachers know which teachers are carrying, do all of the students know which teachers are carrying, where are the guns stored? does even classroom have a gun safe, who knows the code to the gun safe besides the teacher. what happened to the guns overnight. do schools now need 24/7 security to protect guns. is this just about high schools or what about middle school or elementary schools and will teachers be at sporting events or sports practice or music recital and school plays, can a teacher lose their status if they have a disciplinary or domestic problems, will parents sign waivers in case the children are shot by teachers and can we rely on teachers to shoot one of their colleagues if they lose it. can we rely on teachers to be able to shoot a student? none of these are easy questions. but the point is these are just some of the questions that any policymaker or any
every six months i m accident free. and i don t share it with mom! right, mom? righttt. safe driving bonus checks. only from allstate. switching to allstate is worth it. welcome back. tbts i m obsessed with questions that show how complicated it would be to implement the president s idea to arm some teachers with guns and these are questions that would need to be tackled by every school board and every pta across the country. questions about how it would really work if teachers were carrying concealed guns in schools. we have a lot of questions, but here are just some and in no particular order that every school board needs to have answered. what type of gun would teachers carry, how much ammo per teach, who pays for the guns, who trains the teachers with the guns, who certifies the teachers with guns, how much more money do teachers with guns make than teachers without guns, do all of
wake of the newtown shootings when there were some indications that privately the nra might support expanding background checks, but then ultimately the public pressure meant they couldn t and that is coming from newer entrances to the scene, the gun owners of america and other groups so to speak. i think the point you make at the top of your show is a fas flati flate fascinating one. i ve talked to a democrat from a purple state who is looking at this kind of with new eyes and thinking, actually maybe it makes sense for my candidate to run against the nra for the first time. when didn t make sense before because this is such an issue for suburban voters and there are some republicans i would say ryan costello because of the redistricting in pennsylvania, he s always said to me in the hallway, guns are not a winning issue. as think vote voting for concealed andres ip rossi is something in my district. so it will split the party in two and on the senate side they
clients and this is and bob mueller may be doing washington a service. one would hope that is a that is a cleansing activity for people who are who are not necessarily doing illegal things. but not necessarily fully ethical things. and some of that is against the policy of the united states. which makes it even more uncomfortable. yes. but that is more than just political consultants. that is all kinds of people who are representing different sides of different issues. but what what is the line of that people are crossing. you and i have watched this grow over the years and we ve always said to ourselves, boy, it is so lucrative. it is too lucrative. that is what i felt. and i think this is a reminder of how shady that business can be. unbelievable. i want to shift to guns and i want so start by putting up