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Or the bad guy ill put it that way would not even go near the school knowing that someone can fight back against them. also i believe that it is insanity that they would even open the gates up 20 minutes before school ends. they are supposed to protect us and the children. so in the future, we need more security, we need more firearms on campus, we need better back grounds checks, and more study of mental health. i want to thank everyone for their condolences. thank you. >> thank you. i didnt, g...

We have security and we also have mpd on staff that we hire to make sure that things arent coming into our school. and also immediately in the mornings and during dismissal immediately around the school to protect our kids as they leave. but last month, we did suffer a loss. one of our ninth grade was gunned down. so when we talk about safe passage, when we look at gun violence, im saying taking a double approach. you have to protect kids in schools. you have different laws in different states. ...

She will tell you she has spent over a decade in the bronx. and she will tell you that schoolteachers have more than enough responsibilities right now than to have to have the awesome responsibility of lethal force to take a life. [ applause ] thank you. nobody wants to see a shoot-out in school. and deranged sociopath on his way to commit an act of murder in a school with the outcome knowing the outcome will be outside is not going to care if there is somebody there with a gun. that is their pl...

Into that school. im an unknown adult to many of those students. i can tap on a window and they will open the door for me or i can catch someone coming out and easily get in. so one of the things that i have thought a lot about is we have really soft entry points into school. >> that is true. >> good afternoon. my heart goes out to everyone who has experienced this tragedy right now. im currently dean of students at friendship tech prep in the heart of southeast d.c. which is in ward eight which...

It is a massive school with a lot of acreage to cover. a lot of floor area. so that would be a situation that is being discussed a lot by a lot of people. youd have a lot of people that would be armed, be ready, they are professional, they may be marines a left the army, air forks and they are adept at doing that. you have a lot of them and they would be spread evenly throughout the school. so the other thing i really believe that if these cowards knew that the school was well guard from the sta...

If a kid in a sand box threw a rock at other kids, the idea would then -- you would have on give a rock to every other kid in the sand box. >> yeah, that just self contradicts itself. you dont want to give the thing that hurts other people to more people. >> although sawyer, you did say that the idea of having more security at the school as meadow pollacks father talked about, you didnt have an issue with? >> i do think that we need more security. because right now at this time in our school, in...

We have where every visitor has to go through these checkpoints to ensure that our students get home safe, to ensure that our staff members get oem safe. and these are just he minor solutions. im against having a teacher with a gun in a building. teachers are emotional. people are xwleegs emotional. so i think that is a huge factor. however, but having students and you may have to goi to staff members going through these check points to ensure that it is on point and that were talking about they...

And unfortunately you cant wait five or six or seven minutes. and what my daughter said earlier, that there are 32 states that have laws that require the schools to prepare for this. and yet more than half -- and broward county is one of them and our school was prepared, and thank god it was only 17 lives. but when more than half of the counties wont spend the money out of their budget for the training even though the law says they should, it will be that many more the next time. so between havi...