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Action against gun violence. safe gun measures. >> i read today a study that said that lockdown drills are being conducted in 94.6% of american schools. the question for randi, are teachers -- i understand all the points you made and i agree. but are teachers being sufficiently trained given the current climate? >> you know something, i'm not all that sure that you can be sufficiently trained against an ar-15 with this kind of carnage 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, co...

Ha been speaking with, that was one thing they remarked to us. and this community is not new to these type of lockdown drills. this is a community that is very aware, very educated, both the students and the parents and the teachers. in fact the teachers tell us they have been practicing lockdown drills since january. intensely. just that very morning, one of the teachers told us that they had actually gone into a lockdown drill and over the loud speaker they had said all students go to your classrooms, lock the doors. this had nothing to do with the shooting that was about to happen, but it w...

Point and can't have that conversation, that we're seeing dozens of children being killed. i had a colleague, john cox, who did an amazing project this last year, where he was looking a the hundreds of children who have been present for a school shooting inside one of their schools. i think the number was 1,500 students since columbincolumbin. there have been a whole generation of students who have grown up with lockdown drills. a generation of teacher who is have been taught this way. and there's this fear, i think, from some folks. this isn't really about the politics or certainly not partis...

Come annie rad kate this threat. and he understood this and that's why he conducted the assault at this particular time. so when we go back to preparation, all schools are required by law to have these lockdown drills and preparation. but the truth of the matter is how serious are you about fortifying your school. we have to take into consideration, believe it or not this is not a crime ridden neighborhood, this is hab bear ration than the norm. and oftentimes we reflect on when has happened in the past. >> fortifying skoochools, that' where we are today. we now have jim guard back on the phon...

Administrators and the families and the students all are trained as to how to protect themselves in a situation like this. >> it seemed in this instance, tom, from the reports that we've been getting from eyewitnesses on the ground that the teachers did do everything right. these kids have practiced the lockdown drills, they had just done drills a couple weeks before this shooting happened. the students knew what to do and they executed on that. the teachers, the administrators, the staffer knew what they needed to do and they executed on that. what other onus is on the people inside the class...