国际英语资讯:Spotlight: Trump promises strong background checks amid pleas for gun restrictions_时事

国际英语资讯:Spotlight: Trump promises strong background checks amid pleas for gun restrictions

"It would be teachers and coaches," Trump said. He said that if the school's assistant football coach Aaron Feis who shielded students from being shot had a firearm in his locker, he could have shot the shooter instead of running at him.

However, Trump conceded that concealed carry -- carrying a concealed firearm in public -- "only works" with people who are "very adept at using firearms."

Those remarks came a day after Trump said he has recommended that "bump stocks," an accessory that enables semi-automatic weapons to fire hundreds of rounds a minute, be banned.

EMOTIONAL PLEAS

Trump, who appeared open to a wide range of ideas, also heard emotional pleas from those affected by school shootings as they urged the president to take actions to make schools more secured and support additional gun control measures.

"I am a survivor," Julia Cordover, a senior class president at the Florida high school, told Trump. "I was lucky enough to come home from school unlike some of my other class and it's very scary knowing that a lot of people did not have this opportunity to be here."

She pressed the president to ensure that "no person in this world will ever have to go through" such a tragedy again.

Andrew Pollack, whose 18-year-old daughter Meadow was among the 17 victims of the Florida shooting, told the event that it was far too easy for people such as Cruz to get their hands on guns.