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>> geraldo: welcome back. there is an intense debate going on about arming schoolteachers with guns to fight off would be assailants. one pennsylvania district has chosen a different weapon to fend off any shooter. baseball bats. here is the superintendent. >> it's a last resort. it's the last resort but it's also an option. unfortunately we are in a a day and age where we need to use them to protect ourselves. >> geraldo: little bats, like the little ones you get a yankee stadium. 18-inch bats. kimberly, seems almost silly. people who advocate baskets of rocks, stones you can throw. >> kimber...

That the president clearly is reviewing a bunch of different options, throwing out a bunch of different ideas, even saying that he would have rushed into a school without being armed himself. that, of course, raises the question of if schoolteachers actually should be armed. wolf, a few moments ago i caught up with a florida governor who is in a meeting there with the other governors. he opposes the president's plan to arm schoolteachers. he says more money should be spent on school safety and security, not arming teachers. so clearly there is not a consensus here. but wolf, there is definitel...

Are we seeing that play out on the guns issue as well? >> i think the president seems to have a pretty good feel for what his backers and the gun owners of america, the national rifle association and others want. he was already somebody who was in favor of legislation to repeal the gun-free school zones act, which basically didn't allow for teachers to carry. now what we're hearing about plans to possibly subsidize and train teachers to carry weapons. and if the debate is about that, then donald trump and those who argue strenuously for limited limitations on the second amendment are winning i...

Wouldn't even know who has it, that's good. it's not bad. it's good and the teacher would have shot himself before he knew what happened. . >> president trump is pledging to get congress to act on gun k policies. one thing the president has seized on again and again is the idea of arming schoolteachers and other school officials. he said it is those teachers. >> a security guard doesn't know the people that doesn't love the children. he problem my doesn't know the children.

About arming schoolteachers, perhaps tightening background checks, getting rid of bump stocks, accessories, basically, that's good ground for trump to be on to protect what second amendment advocates say is almost an invaluable right to bear arms. >> where should republicans be on this today in the wake of parkland as the students are clearly making an impact that maybe felt for longer than has frankly been felt in the past? >> it is untenable for them not to support packages of reforms. and the bump stock is one relatively low fruit. they have not been able to get that done. they have to comb...