{"id":37115,"date":"2018-02-22T09:49:58","date_gmt":"2018-02-22T17:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=37115"},"modified":"2018-02-22T10:00:01","modified_gmt":"2018-02-22T18:00:01","slug":"donald-trump-in-his-own-deplorable-words-lies-i-never-said-give-teachers-guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=37115","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump in His Own Deplorable Words\/Lies: &#8216;I Never Said Give Teachers Guns&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday morning&#8217;s tweetstorm from Donald Trump is typically filled with nonsense. It&#8217;s tempting to ignore these psychotic outbursts. They rarely have anything of substance or value in them. But he leads off with such a brazen and dangerous lie that it would be journalistic malpractice not to point it out and give it the ridicule it deserves. So buckle up. This is, unfortunately, our president talking.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-ar15.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump AR-15\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-37045\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NewsCorpse\/posts\/2049064781774973\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Advs\/fb-share-tn.jpg\" width=\"274\" height=\"20\" class=\"aligncenter\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I never said \u201cgive teachers guns\u201d like was stated on Fake News <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CNN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CNN<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nbc?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NBC<\/a>. What I said was to look at the possibility of giving \u201cconcealed guns to gun adept teachers with military or special training experience &#8211; only the best. 20% of teachers, a lot, would now be able to<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/966650397002813440?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 22, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>OK, I&#8217;ll give you that. You never said <em>&#8220;give teachers guns.&#8221;<\/em> But you did say to arm teachers (<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=37108\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">an utterly boneheaded idea<\/a><\/strong>). So they would have to buy the guns themselves? That fits your soulless agenda to cut funding for schools and school safety. And you just signed a bill that disallows tax write-offs when teachers use their own money for supplies. Also, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NewsCorpse\/posts\/2048694008478717\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">note what you said about guns in schools<\/a><\/strong> a couple of years ago.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8230;.immediately fire back if a savage sicko came to a school with bad intentions. Highly trained teachers would also serve as a deterrent to the cowards that do this. Far more assets at much less cost than guards. A \u201cgun free\u201d school is a magnet for bad people. ATTACKS WOULD END!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/966653833047887874?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 22, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Immediately? You mean after they recognize that there&#8217;s an emergency situation, retrieve the gun from a safe location, load the gun, and &#8211; oh never mind. The teacher would be dead before any of that could happen. And in the meantime the kids would have been left on their own without the guidance of the teacher to secure their safety.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8230;.History shows that a school shooting lasts, on average, 3 minutes. It takes police &amp; first responders approximately 5 to 8 minutes to get to site of crime. Highly trained, gun adept, teachers\/coaches would solve the problem instantly, before police arrive. GREAT DETERRENT!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/966657362789568512?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 22, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Parkland had had an armed security guard and police presence. That didn&#8217;t deter Nikolas Cruz. And even if there was a deterrent, it would only result in the shooter selecting another target, like a church, restaurant, mall, park, concert, etc. We would have to have armed guards, sales clerks, pastors, and more patrolling everywhere in your prison-like, dystopian world.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8230;.If a potential \u201csicko shooter\u201d 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\u2019t go there&#8230;problem solved. Must be offensive, defense alone won\u2019t work!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/966660169194229761?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 22, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>See above. And WTF do you mean by offensive? Do you intend to have teachers go out and hunt potential shooters?<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I will be strongly pushing Comprehensive Background Checks with an emphasis on Mental Health. Raise age to 21 and end sale of Bump Stocks! Congress is in a mood to finally do something on this issue &#8211; I hope!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/966662241977360384?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 22, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Not sufficient. The availability of military assault weapons will insure higher body counts when <em>&#8220;sickos&#8221;<\/em> act out.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">What many people don\u2019t understand, or don\u2019t want to understand, is that Wayne, Chris and the folks who work so hard at the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NRA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NRA<\/a> are Great People and Great American Patriots. They love our Country and will do the right thing.                  MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/966681883206668289?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 22, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>And you love the NRA. Why not? You took $30,000,000 from them to <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/18\/trump-nra-fbi-alexander-torshin-russia-investigation\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">help Russia get you elected<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Will be meeting with Lawmakers today at 11:30 A.M. to discuss School Safety.  Next week it will be with our Nation\u2019s Governors. It\u2019s been many years of all talk, no action. We\u2019ll get it done!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/966687491616059392?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 22, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re the master of <em>&#8220;all talk, no action,&#8221;<\/em> so as usual, nothing will get done. Just like DACA. Correction: You do sometimes take action, but it always makes things worse.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>How Fox News Deceives and Controls Their Flock:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00QSSMOES\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B00QSSMOES&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=newscorpsecom-20&#038;linkId=TLI6JC2OYE22MUTS\" target=\"_blank\">Fox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a><br \/>\nAvailable now at Amazon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday morning&#8217;s tweetstorm from Donald Trump is typically filled with nonsense. It&#8217;s tempting to ignore these psychotic outbursts. They rarely have anything of substance or value in them. But he leads off with such a brazen and dangerous lie that it would be journalistic malpractice not to point it out and give it the ridicule [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37045,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,1200],"tags":[554,1107,1019],"class_list":["post-37115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-politics","tag-donald-trump","tag-guns","tag-nra"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-ar15.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-9ED","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":37108,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=37108","url_meta":{"origin":37115,"position":0},"title":"The Media Needs to Stop the False Argument of Arming Teachers and Fortifying Schools","author":"Mark NC","date":"2\/21\/2018","format":false,"excerpt":"One week ago a deeply disturbed young man entered his old school in Parkland, Florida, with an AR-15 and ended the lives of fourteen students and three adults. 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