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Families of Gun Victims Confront Trump in White House Listening Session

HeadlineFeb 22, 2018

Inside the White House, President Donald Trump, Vice President Mike Pence and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos hosted a listening session with students and families affected by school shootings. This is Stoneman Douglas student Samuel Zeif, who lost his best friend during last week’s shooting.

Samuel Zeif: “And I don’t understand why I could still go in a store and buy a weapon of war, an AR. I was reading today that a person, 20 years old, walked into a store and bought an AR-15 in five minutes with an expired ID. How is it that easy to buy this type of weapon? How have we not stopped this after Columbine? After Sandy Hook? I’m sitting with a mother that lost her son. It’s still happening.”

President Trump proposed ending “gun-free zones” at schools, and called for teachers to be armed with concealed handguns.

President Donald Trump: “It’s called concealed carry, where a teacher would have a concealed gun on them. They’d go for special training, and they would be there, and you would no longer have a gun-free zone. Gun-free zone, to a maniac—because they’re all cowards—a gun-free zone is, ’Let’s go in, and let’s attack, because bullets aren’t coming back at us.’”

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