I make no bones about it. I am personally dismayed that the President would make arming teachers a cornerstone of his solution to this problem. Furthermore, I think he has received poor counsel regarding the effectiveness of the strategy, the feasibility, and the prudence given the inherent risks involved.

I have heard him brag about how the knowledge that teachers may be armed would serve as a deterrent to an attack. That assumes that a profile of mass youthful murderers includes rational thinking and a will to survive. I don’t find that consistent with the very act itself and the history of the same murderers taking their own life? My experience is that an equal number of similar cowards would consider attacking a school with an armed teacher to be a challenge worthy of martyrdom.

It is unconscionable to pay bonuses to teachers who volunteer to arm themselves. Let the experiment begin. I wonder why Trump insists we need to build a wall on the border but can’t afford a fence and security around our schools.