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<p>Last week&#39;s fatal shooting in Parkland, Florida took 17 people&#39;s lives and has catapulted a group of <a href="https://www.someecards.com/news/news/florida-school-shooting-survivors-drag-conspiracy-theories/" target="_self">teen survivors into advocating for gun reform</a>.</p><p>On Wednesday, <a href="https://www.someecards.com/news/news/trump-held-lines-gun-violence-twitter/">Trump hosted a meeting on gun violence</a> with those affected by the shooting. While survivors voiced the need for stricter gun laws, <a href="https://www.someecards.com/life/politics/donald-trump-teachers-guns/" target="_self">Trump proposed the idea of arming teachers</a>.</p><p>After receiving a veritable amount of online backlash, Trump clarified on Thursday that he &quot;never said give teachers guns&quot; but instead considered the &quot;possibility of giving concealed guns to gun adept teachers.&quot; Which is still technically giving teachers guns.</p><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I never said “give teachers guns” like was stated on Fake News <a href="https://twitter.com/CNN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CNN</a> &amp; <a href="https://twitter.com/nbc?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NBC</a>. What I said was to look at the possibility of giving “concealed guns to gun adept teachers with military or special training experience - only the best. 20% of teachers, a lot, would now be able to</p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/966650397002813440?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 22, 2018</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">....immediately fire back if a savage sicko came to a school with bad intentions. Highly trained teachers would also serve as a deterrent to the cowards that do this. Far more assets at much less cost than guards. A “gun free” school is a magnet for bad people. ATTACKS WOULD END!</p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/966653833047887874?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 22, 2018</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">....History shows that a school shooting lasts, on average, 3 minutes. It takes police &amp; first responders approximately 5 to 8 minutes to get to site of crime. Highly trained, gun adept, teachers/coaches would solve the problem instantly, before police arrive. GREAT DETERRENT!</p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/966657362789568512?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 22, 2018</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">....If a potential “sicko shooter” knows that a school has a large number of very weapons talented teachers (and others) who will be instantly shooting, the sicko will NEVER attack that school. Cowards won’t go there...problem solved. Must be offensive, defense alone won’t work!</p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/966660169194229761?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 22, 2018</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>Regardless of whether Trump originally proposed we should give teachers guns, or that we should &quot;consider giving concealed guns to adept teachers,&quot; his proposal has brought on backlash far and wide.</p><p>But perhaps the most notable rebuttal came from Brandon Friedman, who served as an Army infantry officer during conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq.</p><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Yes we do <a href="https://t.co/7oTLn8eqKL">https://t.co/7oTLn8eqKL</a></p>&mdash; Brandon Friedman (@BFriedmanDC) <a href="https://twitter.com/BFriedmanDC/status/966875813634330624?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 23, 2018</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>In an op-ed published in <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/amp/opinion/arming-teachers-classroom-cost-kids-lives-article-1.3835411" target="_blank"><em>NY Daily News</em></a> Thursday, Friedman wrote about the complexities of being under fire, and how even the most thoroughly trained combat experts often freeze up.</p><blockquote> <p>&quot;Arming educators is a terrible idea for a whole host of reasons, but I want to hone in on a crucial one: the fiction that arming teachers means they&rsquo;ll be able to stop an armed attacker. We hear this over and over. In speaking Wednesday, the President said, &#39;If the coach had a firearm in his locker when he ran at this guy he would have shot and that would be the end of it. Unfortunately you just can&rsquo;t make that assumption. It&rsquo;s not as easy as it looks on TV.&quot;</p> </blockquote><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I&#39;m amazed at the number of people who&#39;ve never been in a situation like this who tweet about how everyone else should be a hero <a href="https://t.co/9XamvfOvWR">https://t.co/9XamvfOvWR</a></p>&mdash; Brandon Friedman (@BFriedmanDC) <a href="https://twitter.com/BFriedmanDC/status/967143424670433280?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 23, 2018</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>Friedman went on to emphasize the fact that firstly, teachers are not educated or qualified to be in battle. Secondly, even the most thoroughly trained veterans can panic or freeze up when confronted with the realities of gun fire. Thirdly, there have been notable number of past shootings that were not successfully prevented by armed staff.</p><blockquote> <p itemprop="articleBody">&quot;There were armed guards at Columbine, the Pulse nightclub and in Las Vegas at the time of the massacre. At Parkland too. Time and again, armed civilians or security guards are out-maneuvered, out-gunned and too inexperienced. It&rsquo;s difficult for a rational person to reach a state where they can go toe-to-toe with an armed psychopath who has nothing to lose. I was professionally trained and still almost blew it at the moment of truth. If armed security guards often don&rsquo;t stop shootings, teachers have no chance.&quot;</p> </blockquote><p>Training or not, when it comes down to it, the way you handle a weapon during a time of emergency is a deeply psychological issue, Friedman wrote. And while qualifications help, adding more guns to the equation does not guarantee a healthy psychological reaction.</p><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>&quot;Instructing a teacher in how to use a gun does very little. Guns aren&rsquo;t magical objects that turn a person into a skilled warrior, no matter how proficient one is at marksmanship. Gun fighting is less about the weapon and more about a state of mind. It&rsquo;s about will. The will to assert yourself over &mdash; and kill &mdash; your armed adversary who wants to kill you.&quot;</p> </blockquote><p> </p><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">There&#39;s a reason combat vets are up in arms over this: They&#39;ve seen people they love, trust and respect freeze at the moment of truth. Or crack under the pressure. People who have fought know how difficult these fights are. So get outta here with this &quot;he shoulda done&quot; whatever.</p>&mdash; Brandon Friedman (@BFriedmanDC) <a href="https://twitter.com/BFriedmanDC/status/967145399944470528?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 23, 2018</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>In conclusion, Friedman echoed the desires of the Parkland shooting survivors themselves, and said stricter gun laws is the safest, most obvious solution to America&#39;s epidemic of gun violence.</p><p>&quot;Rather than arming teachers to shoot back, the more obvious solution is to prohibit the sale and ownership of weapons like the AR-15. And hopefully we will. Soon,&quot; Friedman finished.</p><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

Combat expert takes down Trump's argument to arm teachers.

Last week&#39;s fatal shooting in Parkland, Florida took 17 people&#39;s lives and has catapulted a group of teen survivors into advocating for gun reform.On Wednesday, Trump hosted a meeting on gun violence with those affected by the shooting. While survivors voiced the need for stricter gun laws, Trump proposed the idea of arming teachers.After receiving a veritable amount of online backlash, Trump clarified on Thursday that he &quot;never said give teachers guns&quot; but instead considered the &quot;possibility of giving concealed guns to gun adept teachers.&quot; Which is still technically giving teachers guns.I never said “give teachers guns” like was stated on Fake News @CNN &amp; @NBC. What I said was to look at the possibility of giving “concealed guns to gun adept teachers with military or special training experience - only the best. 20% of teachers, a lot, would now be able to&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 22, 2018 ....immediately fire back if a savage sicko came to a school with bad intentions. Highly trained teachers would also serve as a deterrent to the cowards that do this. Far more assets at much less cost than guards. A “gun free” school is a magnet for bad people. ATTACKS WOULD END!&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 22, 2018 ....History shows that a school shooting lasts, on average, 3 minutes. It takes police &amp; first responders approximately 5 to 8 minutes to get to site of crime. Highly trained, gun adept, teachers/coaches would solve the problem instantly, before police arrive. GREAT DETERRENT!&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 22, 2018 ....If a potential “sicko shooter” knows that a school has a large number of very weapons talented teachers (and others) who will be instantly shooting, the sicko will NEVER attack that school. Cowards won’t go there...problem solved. Must be offensive, defense alone won’t work!&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 22, 2018 Regardless of whether Trump originally proposed we should give teachers guns, or that we should &quot;consider giving concealed guns to adept teachers,&quot; his proposal has brought on backlash far and wide.But perhaps the most notable rebuttal came from Brandon Friedman, who served as an Army infantry officer during conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq.Yes we do https://t.co/7oTLn8eqKL&mdash; Brandon Friedman (@BFriedmanDC) February 23, 2018 In an op-ed published in NY Daily News Thursday, Friedman wrote about the complexities of being under fire, and how even the most thoroughly trained combat experts often freeze up. &quot;Arming educators is a terrible idea for a whole host of reasons, but I want to hone in on a crucial one: the fiction that arming teachers means they&rsquo;ll be able to stop an armed attacker. We hear this over and over. In speaking Wednesday, the President said, &#39;If the coach had a firearm in his locker when he ran at this guy he would have shot and that would be the end of it. Unfortunately you just can&rsquo;t make that assumption. It&rsquo;s not as easy as it looks on TV.&quot; I&#39;m amazed at the number of people who&#39;ve never been in a situation like this who tweet about how everyone else should be a hero https://t.co/9XamvfOvWR&mdash; Brandon Friedman (@BFriedmanDC) February 23, 2018 Friedman went on to emphasize the fact that firstly, teachers are not educated or qualified to be in battle. Secondly, even the most thoroughly trained veterans can panic or freeze up when confronted with the realities of gun fire. Thirdly, there have been notable number of past shootings that were not successfully prevented by armed staff. &quot;There were armed guards at Columbine, the Pulse nightclub and in Las Vegas at the time of the massacre. At Parkland too. Time and again, armed civilians or security guards are out-maneuvered, out-gunned and too inexperienced. It&rsquo;s difficult for a rational person to reach a state where they can go toe-to-toe with an armed psychopath who has nothing to lose. I was professionally trained and still almost blew it at the moment of truth. If armed security guards often don&rsquo;t stop shootings, teachers have no chance.&quot; Training or not, when it comes down to it, the way you handle a weapon during a time of emergency is a deeply psychological issue, Friedman wrote. And while qualifications help, adding more guns to the equation does not guarantee a healthy psychological reaction. &quot;Instructing a teacher in how to use a gun does very little. Guns aren&rsquo;t magical objects that turn a person into a skilled warrior, no matter how proficient one is at marksmanship. Gun fighting is less about the weapon and more about a state of mind. It&rsquo;s about will. The will to assert yourself over &mdash; and kill &mdash; your armed adversary who wants to kill you.&quot;  There&#39;s a reason combat vets are up in arms over this: They&#39;ve seen people they love, trust and respect freeze at the moment of truth. Or crack under the pressure. People who have fought know how difficult these fights are. So get outta here with this &quot;he shoulda done&quot; whatever.&mdash; Brandon Friedman (@BFriedmanDC) February 23, 2018 In conclusion, Friedman echoed the desires of the Parkland shooting survivors themselves, and said stricter gun laws is the safest, most obvious solution to America&#39;s epidemic of gun violence.&quot;Rather than arming teachers to shoot back, the more obvious solution is to prohibit the sale and ownership of weapons like the AR-15. And hopefully we will. Soon,&quot; Friedman finished.