As news broke that an armed officer froze during last week's shooting, Trump called for armed teachers.
| |  |  | | with Josh Hafner | | OnPolitics Today: An officer froze, but Trump backs armed teachers |  | | Scot Peterson, an armed officer assigned to protect Marjory Stoneman Douglas High, arrived roughly a minute after bullets began firing during last week's massacre at the Florida school. He froze for four minutes, a sheriff's office revealed Thursday, and never went in. | | Before the officer's failure came to light, President Trump suggested that armed teachers could have successfully fended off the shooter who killed 17 people last week.
"If the coach had a firearm in his locker when he ran at this guy ... he wouldn't have had to run," Trump said of a school staffer who died in the attack.
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