Earlier this week, the Trump administration on Monday revealed their new proposals in a bid to make schools safer. The proposals included a plan to have the Department of Justice partner with state and local law enforcement to provide school personnel with voluntary firearm training.
But is having more guns the answer? Especially in schools? We donât think it is. And Senator Kamala Harris doesnât seem to think it is the answer either.
Speaking to Judiciary Committee yesterday (March 14th) she said:
âAs a career prosecutor I have worked with many communities where children go to sleep each night hearing gunfire and so what weâre proposing is that those children â remember Sandy Hook [Elementary School] weâre talking about six- and seven-year-olds â are supposed to go to school and look at the front of their class at their second-grade teacher and sheâs going to be strapped with a gun⊠I donât understand how that makes any sense
. Young people, these leaders, are making it very clear itâs a false choice to suggest youâre either in favor of the Second Amendment or you want to take everyoneâs guns away⊠And right now, what we need is we need to have common sense gun safety laws in our country⊠I donât know what weâre waiting for. We donât need any more tragedies.â
She received applause for her speech. We hope that Trump and his administration are listening and paying attention â but we will not hold our breath.
