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By Alexandra Ulmer (Reuters) - Immediately after Tuesday's school shooting in Texas, conservative politicians reacted with another push for arming sch...

Now has been a sledge hammer chipping away at an issue that often feels like it cant be change. look in the past three weeks real progress across the nation from banning bump stock to the so-called red flag bills happening from oregon to the utah to alabama. there is this nation-wide domino affect. the latest domino florida. today they passed the marjory stoneman douglas high school public safety act. it raise it is age for buying to 21. adds a three-day waiting period on all firearm sales. it b...

High school public safety act. it raises the age for buying firearms to 21. it adds a three-day waiting period on all firearm sales. it bans bump stocks. this proposed law would add an idea that president trump has created creating a school marshal program to arm some teachers. but if it becomes law it will be floridas first gun control measure in 22 years. this is a state that has generally gone in totally the other direction. pro-nra, the stand your ground laws. theyre favored by the nra which...

Strength to try to bring about change. you support the bill being considered today, the school marshal program is in it. it would arm school staff members and teachers who, first of all, volunteer and get more than 130 hours of training. as you know teachers have been encouraged to lobby against the plan. a recent poll found america is divided. 50% oppose arming teachers. i wonder can you talk about what is motivating your position on this and have you talked to teachers there and how do they fe...

Now that do that and i think with that in mind i will call on greg abbott. right here. >> texas authorized to schools adopt policies to implement a school marshal program where individuals would be trained to have a weapon, to be able to use that weapon and we now have well over 100 school districts in the state of texas where teachers or other people who work in the school do carry a weapon and are trained to be able to respond to an attack that occurs. it is not always a schoolteacher, it coul...