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Some of the kids from parkland and other place whose are coming so that they have free places to stay. we are all engaged in preparing for this weekend, then horror. >> reporter: it is interesting, this is a larger small in a more rural community about 50 miles south of d.c. students at this school, some of them, participated in that walkout just last week. i asked the student i just interviewed. he said they do do lockdown drills, but this may be something sort of for the policymakers down the road. the lockdown drills are all based on students sitting from a classroom. he said they were stan...

To create change, we have got to start dealing with that problem and stop talking about -- this is all a diversionary tactic. we have got to stop assault weapons, the sale of assault weapons and we need to make a change and every american needs to stand up and say we are tired of this, it's got to change now. >> what then is the alternative to what we are hearing from the attorney general and those who agree with him that there should be armed teachers, additional resource officers? what then is that first defense in the five to eight minutes it may take a law enforcement officer to get to a s...

Like 1974 for republicans. at some point you've got to stop angering suburban republican voters who have always voted for you but in like alabama and virginia said enough. >> that's true. if you're in that tough race, alienating this core base voters who were nra supporters would be a tough step for any republican. i think what people aren't really factoring in yet is this rebel onamong young people. i was talking about it with one of my daughters who is a school teacher last night about the world in which every teacher and every student goes through lockdown drills and what that does to peopl...

Happen as far as what should happen, i would just like to see schools be a place where kids can fwo to get an education and to feel safe. they are not going to get a good education if they don't feel safe. >> and you wrote that one of your students had an idea about changing things. can you share that with us? >> yes, we were talking, obviously, with high school students. these issues come up. when things happen and with the recent shooting not too far from our area, we were discussing what would we do if that happened. we do have drills twice a year where we do lockdown drills and practice wh...

Safe gun measures. >> i read at vox today a study that said that lockdown drills are being conducted in 94.6% of american schools. the question for randy weingarten -- are teachers -- i agree with your points, but are teachers being sufficiently trained given the current climate? >> i'm not sure you can be sufficiently trained against an ar-15 with this kind of carnage that can happen in five minutes. i don't know how that could be sufficiently trainable. our teachers all around the country, getting training in active shooting, in code reds, code blues, code violets, absolutely. did that happe...