Trump’s response to School Shootings

In a world where news is easily accessed, the need to separate fact from opinion is dire.
The tragic shootings that have struck our country in the past two months have left lawmakers, citizens, and the “leader of the free world” shook and with blurred thinking.
Although our leader of the United States speaks majority opinion and on the whim of his feelings, President Trump responded open-heartedly and with reason adjacent to every other president in our past.
The controversy arose when he suggested that about 20 percent of teachers in school should be trained and armed.
This obscure idea left me perplexed and confused.
The idea of fighting fire with fire should be last tier when dealing with children and education. His reasoning was that their teachers would stop “maniacs” who may try and attack them, which would only be creating a battlefield at schools that children are forced to be pawns of. The ignorance of what can make students safe is clear.
Arming these “qualified” teachers is also destined to create a slew of other crimes.
We have already witnessed what “qualified and trained” officers do to unarmed students without guns.
As a student studying to potentially work in the education field, I truly laugh at the fact that our President wants to add “school secret service assassin” to the list of what teachers do. On top of teaching content, mentoring, being a psychiatrist, parent figure, overseeing extracurricular activities, and babysitting, we are presented with the option to lay our life on the line and kill or harm another human being. This is an unprecedented (audio pun intended) action that is inconsiderate and depressing to say the least.
Trump’s response isn’t entirely ridiculous. His idea to reform the mental state of children was one in the right direction. He touched on how video games, excess violence online and movies are essentially making children numb to violence and its impression on them. The only thing is that politicians and news reporters are too quick to denounce anything the man says to help come up with solutions, but I digress.
All in all, the loved truth is that there is no complete solution.
Nothing in the real world is that simple and the quicker we realize that everyone wants better and is just saying whatever they feel to stop the shooting of our innocent students. I am even a victim of this, which shows we all need growth.
We here at the Digest send our prayers to the victims of the recent school shootings.