Former president has called for trained teachers to be allowed to carry guns in classrooms and a security overhaul at schools following this week’s shooting at a Texas school by a gunman who killed 19 children and two teachers.
‘It’s time to finally allow highly trained teachers to safely and discreetly concealed carry. Let them concealed carry,’ Trump said in a speech during a convention of the biggest US gun lobby, the National Rifle Association, in Houston.
The fatal shooting on 24 May in Uvalde, Texas, by an 18-year-old equipped with an AR-15 style semiautomatic rifle again focused attention on the NRA, a major donor to Congress members, mostly Republicans
