Wow, Republicans will just go along with any dumb idea Trump proposes:
Both Republican candidates for Ohio governor say they support arming teachers as part of an approach to prevent further school shootings.
There is, however, a difference of opinion between Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine and Lt. Gov. Mary Taylor on bump stocks, devices that allow semi-automatic rifles to be effectively converted into automatic weapons. DeWine said he supports President Donald Trump's direction to ask U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions to takes steps to ban the stocks. Taylor has said she does not think they should be banned.
Taylor said Thursday that she doesn't believe restricting Second Amendment rights is the solution to mass shootings like the one at a Florida high school last week that killed 17.
"I do think that we need to secure our schools and arming teachers," said Taylor in an interview following an appearance at the Conservative Political Action Conference in a suburb of Washington, D.C... "I think that where you have a bad guy with a gun, something that saves life is a good guy with a gun."
Taylor also said government officials also need to figure out how to identify students with mental health issues and address them.
A campaign spokesman for DeWine said DeWine's views have not changed since December 2012, when he proposed that school districts consider arming at least one employee in the aftermath of a gunman killing 26 students and teachers at Sandy Hook Elementary in Connecticut. Ohio law authorizes local school districts to allow their teachers and other employees to carry concealed weapons, and some schools have "response teams" of employees trained to respond in the event of a school shooter.
Arming teachers with guns is an idiotic idea and we can’t let DeWine or Taylor get away with campaigning on that idea. I for one urge you all to support the Richard Cordray (D. OH)/Betty Sutton (D. OH) ticket. Click here to donate and get involved with the Cordray/Sutton ticket.