American Federation of Teachers (AFT) president Randi Weingarten has weighed in against the idea of arming teachers, arguing that if teachers can’t dictate what children learn at school, they can’t be entrusted with guns, either.
Weingarten spoke on Jun. 11 at the March for Our Lives rally in Washington, an event organized by a group of survivors of the 2018 attack at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. She was among a slate of speakers advocating for tighter gun laws, which they claim would prevent tragedies such as those in Parkland and more recently, Uvalde, Texas.
