Public security

'Gun-free school zones' take weapons from kids, not cops

President Trump has repeatedly mocked the idea of a “gun-free” school zone in the weeks since a Florida rampage, saying schools should be heavily guarded and fortified and teachers should carry concealed guns, air marshal-style.

"You have a gun-free zone, it's like an invitation for these very sick people to go there," Trump told a gathering of governors at the White House on Monday.

A gun-free zone “is like target practice" for school shooters like Nikolas Cruz, the accused shooter at Parkland's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Trump told an interviewer on Saturday. “They see that and that's what they want. Gun-free zones are very dangerous. The bad guys love gun-free zones.”

A gun-free school “is a magnet for bad people,” the president tweeted last Thursday.