Republican 2024 Candidates Call for More Law Enforcement in Schools After Tennessee Shooting

Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, speaks during the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at the Gaylord National Resort Hotel And Convention Center in National Harbor, Md., on March 3, 2023. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images

Two of the top 2024 Republican presidential candidates are calling for more law enforcement in schools after a deadly shooting at an elementary school in Tennessee.

“The real question is why this criminal was able to get into that school in Nashville in the first place, right?” Vivek Ramaswamy, one of the candidates, said in a video statement. “We protect our banks, green pieces of paper sitting in the bank account, more effectively than we protect our kids in schools.”