Keep guns out of the classroom," the spot concludes, instructing viewers to visit the campaign landing page to "learn how to fight gun violence."
In response to the February 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, President Trump proposed the controversial solution of training and arming teachers with concealed firearms. In a new campaign, the Chicago Sun-Times and Ogilvy & Mather Chicago took a group of teachers to a firing range to see what would happen if Trump’s proposition came to fruition.
The group was mostly comprised of teachers skeptical about arming educators, some of whom had never fired a weapon before—but it also includes a third-grade teacher and combat veteran named Erin.
“I do not think that guns have a place in the classroom,” Erin said after the teachers shot a round at targets (with limited success).