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    House GOP leaders dismiss Trump plan to arm teachers as a local matter

    by Cathleen Decker, Los Angeles Times Feb 27, 2018 4 minutes

    WASHINGTON - House Republicans declined Tuesday to sign onto President Donald Trump's proposal for a federal mandate to arm teachers in the wake of the Florida school massacre, and also made clear their aim is to oppose further restrictions on guns.

    House Speaker Paul D. Ryan, R-Wis., speaking as Congress returned from a long break after the Feb. 14 killing of 17 students and teachers by a former student armed with an AR-15 rifle, said decisions about teachers' use of weapons should rest with local authorities.

    "That is really a question for local governments, local school boards," he said of the

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