Speaking at the 2023 NRA Annual Convention, President Trump promised a host of actions to protect schools if elected in 2024. Instead of doing what the left wants and cracking down on gun ownership to protect schools, Trump would instead help encourage teachers to get armed by creating a tax credit for those who train to carry weapons.
“Our country has been chock full of guns for centuries, and there was no talk of massacres of schoolchildren until around the year 2000. That’s when it really started. They started talking about it. This is not a gun problem. This is a mental health problem. This is a social problem. This is a cultural problem. This is a spiritual problem.
“Each and every one of these heinous attacks depend on the same cold blooded calculation, that the evil monster will have a window of time to act out their demonic fantasy unchallenged. They want to be unchallenged, they don’t want challenge. The only way to stop these wicked acts is to ensure that any sicko who would shoot up a school knows that within seconds, not minutes, they will face certain death, they have to know that they won’t be doing.
“For this reason, I will ask Congress to repeal totally ineffective legislation that makes it harder to protect our schools and easier for criminals to face absolutely no opposition when they go in. I will also create a new tax credit to reimburse any teacher for the full costs of a concealed carry firearm and training from highly qualified experts who’s better, who’s better.
“Even 5% of teachers, people that are skilled with arms, we want that 5% were voluntarily armed and trained to stop active shooters, we would achieve effective deterrence and the problem would cease to exist and that would be a lot of people. But these are all people that are trained and talented with firearms for about $12 billion.
“We could fund armed security guards at the entrance every school in America and also arm every wheeling teacher we want to arm some of these teachers that have to go through rigorous or some people say vigorous, I like vigorous better I don’t like rigorous. They have to go through vigorous training but they’re already there. And they’ll do better than anybody you could put in and they love our children. They really love our children.”
Watch him here:
Trump on school shootings at the NRA forum: "This is not a gun problem … this is a spiritual problem … I will also create a new tax credit to reimburse any teacher for the full cost of a concealed carry firearm and training … we want to arm some of these teachers." pic.twitter.com/iFj2YSa5eh
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 14, 2023
Trump, posting about the NRA event on Truth Social, said, “The NRA Event was spectacular last night. Packed house! Indianapolis and NRA Officials combined to do a great job. Thank you! Am now in the Great State of Tennessee. Will be giving the RNC Keynote tonight. They are, to put it mildly, very happy with my polls. Way up on all Republicans, and Biden. The Dems are working hard on various forms of CHEATING, including Election Interference through the illegal use of Prosecutors, on a scale never seen before. Do not discount their ability to CHEAT!!!”
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