the salient feature to remember about mr. trump is that he is not very bright and not educated and not really intellectually curious, and his ideas about what america should do are naive in the worst sense of the word. for instance, he says if a shooter knew that a school had armed teachers in it the shooter would not enter, because shooters are cowards (who presumably want to save their own skin). this is a comical assertion; potential school shooters are, if anything, patently not rational actors acting objectively in their own interest, they are sick individuals, and many of them are suicidal (incidentally, gun suicide is one of the worst features of a country awash in weapons). it's just as likely that knowing a school has many arms in it might increase its desirability as a target to someone in the particular state of mind it takes to want to mow down your peers. it certainly is no solution to the problem, which is precisely that there are so many many guns in america.
emma gonzalez, the student who, in a reasoned and passionate and effective speech, called out mr trump, a man who defends the NRA's interest in selling guns and the politicians and citizens who support him in doing so, has done what the corrupt american political system has failed utterly to do — she has simply told the truth.
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