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Which is giving guns to teachers, and, of course, that's his way of not dealing with the assault weapons ban, he wants to change the subject. >> exactly. >> let's listen to what one of your teachers, greg pitman had to say about this. >> as teachers we're used to making split second decisions, i don't want to have to take a split second decision to decide are you a threat to my class, as a student, do i need to shoot you? what if i make a mistake and shoot and kill a student by accident? act on what i think is correct, and it's incorrect. i'm not trained to be the s.w.a.t., trained to be the p...

With them to come to some sort of compromise where we ensure that nobody who is mentally unstable, has a history of domestic violence, or a criminal record is able to get these weapons. we have to deal with that as it is now, because the republicans, supported by the nra are in control until midterms, hopefully. because they're in control, we have to work with them for now. but i'm sure if they don't work with us, it's all right because they won't be around for much longer. >> david, i also want to ask you about this issue that the president is now advancing, which is giving guns to teachers, ...

But the national education association opposes this. in parkland, florida, where 17 people were killed last week, stoneman douglas teacher greg pitman who owns a gun but keeps it at home he worries about arming teachers. >> the president wants to raise the age when people can buy semi automatic weapons. >> we're going to work on getting the age up to 21 instead of 18. >> but that pits the president against the national rival association who says this will deprive people of their constitutional right to self-protection. >> thank you very much. i don't think i'll be going up against them. i real...

Greg pitman is a history teacher at marjory stoneman douglas high school. thank you for being here, i'm sure's been a hell of a three days for you. i know you heard that second alarm, you had the fire alarm as expected earlier in the day, you had done that. you got your classroom outside located to zone 6 where you were supposed to go to evacuate under normal procedures. but you knew something was totally wrong when another teacher comes up to you and says, those are real gunshots. what happened then? >> correct. and even before this, we knew something was wrong, because we knew practiced just...

3:30 for teachers that want to go to discuss. i don't even know if we're having school yet next week. i don't know how we'll do it. at this point i don't know what the plan is. i'm sure there is some type of plan and we're all going to have to deal with it individually and together. i do say we've got a strong group of students. we have a strong administration and teachers here. the limited number of -- unfortunately we had fatalities, they are probably because of the people that we have on this campus were able to limit it. it's going to be difficult going forward. it won't be easy. but we'll...