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Donald Trump defended the National Rifle Association, Americans biggest gun lobby, saying it was led by "great people" who would "do the right thing" as he intensified his support for arming school teachers.
The US president said "attacks would end" if around a fifth of America’s teachers were armed with concealed weapons and trained how to use them.
Wayne LaPierre, chief executive of the NRA, last night offered free firearms training to schools to stop the "evil that walks among us".
Mr Trump’s enthusiasm for arming teachers was a response to America’s worst ever high school shooting.
A total of 17 people died when Nikolas Cruz, 19, opened fire with a semi-automatic rifle at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida last week.
Mr Trump wrote on Twitter: "What many people don’t understand is that the folks who work so hard at the NRA are Great People and Great American Patriots."
He added: "If a potential ‘sicko shooter’ knows that a school has a large number of very weapons-talented teachers and others who will be instantly shooting, the sicko will NEVER attack that school. Cowards won’t go there."
He also vowed to strongly push tighter background checks for those purchasing weapons, along with investment in mental health services, and potentially raising the age people can buy a semi-automatic weapon from 18 to 21.
Mr Trump said: "Congress is in a mood to finally do something on this issue – I hope!"
What many people don’t understand, or don’t want to understand, is that Wayne, Chris and the folks who work so hard at the @NRA are Great People and Great American Patriots. They love our Country and will do the right thing. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 22, 2018
Mr LaPierre stepped into the debate with a full-throated defence of the Second Amendment, which enshrines the right to bear arms, at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference near Washington.
He told a crowd of young conservatives: "We must immediately harden our schools. Every day, young children are being dropped off at schools that are virtually wide open, soft targets for anyone bent on mass murder.
"The elites don’t care not one whit about America’s school system and school children. Their goal is to eliminate the Second Amendment and our firearms freedoms so they can eradicate all individual freedoms."
He questioned why professional basketball games and parts of Hollywood were protected by armed guards but schools were not.
He said: "Do we really love our money and our celebrities more than we love our children?"
Mr LaPierre also lashed out at the FBI for failing to act on a tip about the Florida school gunman.
Will be meeting with Lawmakers today at 11:30 A.M. to discuss School Safety. Next week it will be with our Nation’s Governors. It’s been many years of all talk, no action. We’ll get it done!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 22, 2018
However, Marco Rubio, the Republican senator from Florida and ardent NRA supporter, publicly criticised the widespread arming of teachers.
He said: "I don’t support that. The notion that my kids are going to school with teachers that are armed with a weapon is not something that, quite frankly, I’m comfortable with.”
Alfonso Calderon, 16, a survivor of the Florida shooting, said: "As far as I’m aware teachers are meant to be educators.
"They are not meant to know how to carry AR-15s. They are not meant to know how to put on Kevlar vests for the other students or themselves."
Mr Trump initially floated the idea on Wednesday night during an emotionally charged White House "listening session" with survivors of mass shootings in Florida, Columbine and Sandy Hook.
At the session Andrew Pollack, who lost his daughter Meadow, 18, in the Florida shooting, told the president: "It should have been one school shooting and we should have fixed it. And I’m p—-d. We as a country failed our children.
"I can’t get on the plane with a bottle of water, but we leave some animal to walk into a classroom and shoot our children."
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