President Trump on Saturday said the decision to arm teachers should be left to individual states after he said he’d like to devote federal money to training them.

Trump has proposed giving teachers extra pay as an incentive to be trained on handling firearms as a deterrent to would-be mass shooters in the wake of the mass shooting in Parkland, Fla., that left 17 people dead.

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