President Trump told a group of school-shooting survivors at the White House that arming teachers may be the answer to preventing future massacres.

“A gun-free zone is, ‘Let’s go in, and lets attack because bullets aren’t coming back at us,’” Trump told a group that included students who survived last week’s high school shooting in South Florida that killed 17 people.

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