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Teachers To Trump: “Bone Spurs Will Prevent Us From Carrying Guns In School”
Nation’s educators say that due to foot ailment, and common sense, they oppose president’s call to arm them on the job
Pulling a page from the president’s own playbook, The National Education Association (NEA), the nation’s largest teachers union at three million strong, says that arming educators in schools is a terrible idea, made even more unfeasible by what it called “a sudden bout of bone spurs by all members of our union.”
“With bone spurs, it’s very painful to carry a gun, as Mr. Trump knows well,” said Lily Eskelsen García, president of the NEA. Ms. Eskelsen Garcia seemed to be referring to the president’s inability to serve in the Vietnam War due to a bone spur condition, for which he received several deferments.
She went on: “Since we can’t handle guns without severe discomfort, and don’t want to, we think Mr. Trump and his N.R.A. handlers need to come up with a safer, more sensible solution that won’t lead to more school shootings and more student deaths, but…
