We’re not sure what Donald Trump hoped to accomplish by calling Scot Peterson a coward. Peterson was a 33-year veteran of Broward County Sheriff’s Department. He resigned yesterday when it was determined he didn’t enter Douglas High School to confront the shooter. While some of the facts haven’t been made public, we don’t know everything.  It clearly wasn’t Deputy Peterson’s finest hour. But stop for a second and imagine what’s going on in his head.  Imagine what he has to live with for the rest of his life. Does he deserve criticism? Yes, but then to be called out by the President of the United States? It just seems so unnecessary, petty and beneath the dignity of the office, if there’s any dignity remaining.

But Trump wasn’t done. Then he said it’s better to arm teachers (his NRA talking point) because it would be preferable to a security guard who “doesn’t love the children.” Really? So we toss all well-meaning school security guards under the bus because it doesn’t fit the NRA agenda? It’s obviously been a long time since Donald Trump was in a school. To discredit a profession just because you’ve been given $30 million from the gun lobby is, well, predictable.

Arming America’s teachers is never going to happen. Ever. The only ones who want it are the NRA and the gun manufacturers who would make boatloads of money. Twenty percent of America’s teachers equals about 700,000 people, or in the eyes of the NRA, 700,000 guns. At $500 a gun that’s more than $350 million. Plus, according to The Washington Post, you can count on another $700 million for training. That’s $1 billion that would come from where? How many teachers across the country already buy their own supplies for the classroom because there is no money?

This is all about the NRA getting their money’s worth. $30 million bought a lot of talk.