Former US President Donald Trump. File photoWASHINGTON, May 28.Former US President Donald Trump believes specially trained American teachers should be allowed to carry concealed weapons in schools.
"We all should agree that our schools should not be the weakest targets. On the contrary, they should be the most inaccessible targets,” Trump said, speaking at the US National Rifle Association convention in Houston. His speech was broadcast by federal and local TV channels.
According to the former US president, the time has come for the country to “allow trained teachers to carry weapons discreetly in schools.” In addition, Trump called for increased funding and improved recruitment and training of police officers throughout the country. The former owner of the White House also made a proposal to equip all national educational institutions with metal detectors, as well as to establish a rule according to which a police officer or security guard must be on duty at every school. On Tuesday, 18-year-old resident of the Texas town of Yuvalde Salvador Ramos opened fire at an elementary school. Subsequently, the attacker was killed by the police. Ramos is known to have acquired two rifles on May 22, less than a week after he turned 18. Texas Gov. Gregg Abbott said the Uwald school shooting killed 19 children and two adults and injured 17 others. urged to protect children in the United States, remembering billions of dollars in aid to UkraineThe shooting in Yuvald was the bloodiest incident of its kind in the United States in the last decade. US President Joe Biden repeatedly promised to solve the problem, including while serving as Vice President of the United States in the Barack Obama administration when the tragedy occurred at Sandy Hook. Many supporters of tighter gun control in the United States do not hide their disappointment with the achievements of the head of state in this field, given that this issue was one of the central places in his election program and favorably distinguished him from other contenders for the presidency.
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