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_Published 2018-02-23. Teachers are responding to President Donald Trump’s suggestion that arming teachers would prevent more school shootings and are using the hashtag #ArmMeWith to demand better school supplies and mental health resources, not guns._


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## Transcript

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. I'm 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 I will be given a bonus. I would rather see all of that money go to having more security personal on my campus, giving me more money in my paycheck. I dont need a gun. Give me the money instead. Dont need to have a gun to keep me safe. I knew. That the SWAT team, the FBI, [ UNKNOWN ] Sheriff's office, local police offices were here securing the campus and keeping us safe.

That made me feel safe. If I had had a gun in my classroom with 15 students, I wouldn't have used it. I didn't 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've 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'd be dead.

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