Following the recent tragedy in Parkland, Florida, the National Rifle Association and President Trump have tried to shift away from the wonderful job high schoolers have done if advocating for gun control onto arming teachers. While some of Trump's proposals (raising age limits on assault weapons, banning bump stocks) are reasonable, even if they don't go far enough to address our national gun violence problem, his idea of arming twenty percent of teachers is ridiculous.
Never mind that they don't want to do it, but that would require training and arming more than one million private and public school teachers around the country. That is a number larger than our armed infantry in the Army.
Of course, it's the one proposal the NRA backs. And why wouldn't they? That's over one million additional guns to be sold by their gun company sponsors, as well as whatever money would be made from gun ranges since teachers would likely have to maintain their training.
Raising the minimum age for assault rifle sales and banning bump stocks will hit the pockets of gun companies and the NRA. Meanwhile, they'll hit payday gold if one million guns are sold to teachers.
So it only makes sense that they'd back this ridiculous proposal that puts more guns into our schools and feet away from our students. Why? The NRA will get rich from it!
It's all about the money.
