Trump held a listening session with survivors of the Florida shooting massacre at the White House on Wednesday.
A photograph taken at the White House on Wednesday revealed a number of handwritten points for reference for President Donald Trump during a listening session with survivors of the Stoneman Douglas massacre in Florida.
A picture taken by Getty’s Chip Somodevilla showed Trump holding a piece of White House stationery featuring five handwritten points.
While points three and four were covered by the hands of the presidents, points one, two and five are clearly visible and are detailed below.
- What would you most want me to know about your experience?
2. What can we do to help you feel safe?
5. I hear you.”
During the listening session, Trump proposed that teachers could be armed in an effort to prevent such incidents from occurring in the future.
“We can understand both sides and certainly it’s controversial,” he said.
Amongst those to speak at the session was Stoneman Douglas student Samuel Zeif, 18, who said that he couldn’t understand why, under gun laws in the US, he can still go into a store and buy “a weapon of war”.
Samuel Zeif, Stoneman Douglas student: "I don't understand, I turned 18 the day after [the shooting]. Woke up to the news that my best friend was gone. And I don't understand why I can still go in a store and buy a weapon of war. An AR." https://t.co/qLL6Kp8HYo pic.twitter.com/sNB9k7o4ip
— CBS News (@CBSNews) February 21, 2018
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