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The notion that the NRA likes to push that a...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eA Detroit-area teacher and a handful of her students say they don't see any merit in the idea of giving guns to teachers.\u003cbr/\u003e              \"The idea of arming teachers is absolutely ridiculous. The notion that the NRA likes to push that a good guy with a gun can stop a bad guy with a gun is just a myth. It's not real,\" Mary Kay Kubicek, who teaches language arts to 11th-graders at Dearborn High School, said outside the school on Thursday.\u003cbr/\u003e              Talk of arming teachers comes in the aftermath of yet another mass school shooting, this one in Florida, where the 17 victims of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland are being mourned. \u003cbr/\u003e              President Donald Trump weighed into the debate saying during a listening session Wednesday with parents and survivors of school shootings that a teacher adept at firearms could end the attack very quickly.\u003cbr/\u003e              \"You're just a teacher. You shouldn't be responsible for protecting the entire school. Have armed guards for that, not teachers. Their job is to teach,\" said Amelia Tennant, a junior at Dearborn High School in Michigan. \u003cbr/\u003e              Meanwhile, at the Conservative Political Action Conference or CPAC, in Maryland, attendees weighed-in with mixed reviews. \u003cbr/\u003e              Conservative talk show host Stephanie Trussell said she's all for it. \u003cbr/\u003e              \"We want to make schools safer. And more good guys with guns, you know, they get the bad guys. That stops them every time there's a good guy with a gun that stops all the bad guys,\" she said.\u003cbr/\u003e              Timothy Finn from New York, also attending the conference, did not agree. \u003cbr/\u003e              \"School is not an army base, it's a place to go learn. You'll be fearful of a police officer at a school with a gun — no, I wouldn't go to school if I was a kid,\" he said.\u003cbr/\u003e            \u003cbr/\u003e\u003cbr/\u003e              Dearborn, Michigan – 22 February 2018\u003cbr/\u003e              1. Various of Dearborn High School teacher Mary Kay Kubicek talking with students outside the school\u003cbr/\u003e              2. SOUNDBITE (English) Mary Kay Kubicek, High School Teacher:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"The idea of arming teachers is absolutely ridiculous. The notion that the NRA (referring to the National Rifle Association) likes to push that a good guy with a gun can stop a bad guy with a gun is just a myth. It's not real.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              3. Digital sign welcoming visitors to Dearborn High School\u003cbr/\u003e              4. SOUNDBITE (English) Mary Kay Kubicek, High School Teacher:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"If protection was our (referring to teachers') primary function, then school would look entirely different. School would look far more like a prison.\" \u003cbr/\u003e              5. Various of senior Julianna Wozniak talking to Kubicek and a student group gathered\u003cbr/\u003e              6. SOUNDBITE (English) Amelia Tennant, High School Student:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"You're just a teacher. You shouldn't be responsible for protecting the entire school. Have armed guards for that, not teachers. Their job is to teach.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              7. Various of the exterior of Dearborn High and the teacher-student talk\u003cbr/\u003e              8. SOUNDBITE (English) Noor Moughni, High School Student:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"It's kind of an oxymoron if you think of it. A gun represents everything violence and what's negative, and a school is supposed to be a safe house. It represents safety. And putting the two together is just illogical. It doesn't make sense.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              9. Junior Maxine Mackie and her fellow students walk to the parking lot\u003cbr/\u003e              10. SOUNDBITE (English) Maxine Mackie, High School Student:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"Where is this money going to come from to get all the guns and get all the training? If you have all this money to spend for that, what about the crumbling schools just in Detroit down our street who need that money so desperately?\"\u003cbr/\u003e              11. Wozniak gets into her car\u003cbr/\u003e              12. Junior Amelia Tennant talks to a fellow student while getting into her car\u003cbr/\u003e              \u003cbr/\u003e              National Harbor, Maryland – 22 February 2018\u003cbr/\u003e              13. SOUNDBITE (English) Stephanie Trussell, Conservative Talk Show Host from Chicago, Illinois:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"We guard banks, we guard money, we guard jewellery. Why wouldn't we guard our children? It just makes sense. We've got thousands of schools, but we've got thousands of very well-trained veterans walking around doing whatever jobs when they come back from defending our country. I would support someone like them walking around the school. I'm a mom of five children, I still have a seventh grader, they're building a new school in my district. I want them to build into the school safe rooms, you hit a button, an alarm that is different from the fire alarm, that says, 'We've got a shooter. Lock the doors. Are they bulletproof?' We have to do what we need to do.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              ++BLACK FRAMES++\u003cbr/\u003e              14. SOUNDBITE (English) Stephanie Trussell, Conservative Talk Show Host from Chicago, Illinois:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"It's an emotional time right now. I think we should even talk about it for weeks. For now, let those people heal and then let's look at a common sense way to deal with this and to protect our children. That's the big issue. We want to make schools safer. And more good guys with guns, you know, they get the bad guys. That's what stops them every time there's a good guy with a gun that stops all the bad guys.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              ++BLACK FRAMES++\u003cbr/\u003e              15. SOUNDBITE (English) Timothy Finn, from New York: \u003cbr/\u003e              \"No, school is not an army base. School is not an army base, it's a place to go learn. 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