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    After teacher fires gun at school, Ga. students use opportunity to challenge Trump's proposal

    by Matt Pearce, Los Angeles Times Mar 01, 2018 4 minutes

    Jesse Randall Davidson wasn't a stranger, some mysterious threat from the outside. He was a bearded, bespectacled, 53-year-old social studies teacher and the play-by-play announcer for the football games at Dalton High School in northwest Georgia.

    But when the teacher brought a gun to school, barricaded himself in his classroom Wednesday and fired a single shot, students quickly recognized that this wasn't just a sad local incident.

    Amid national outrage over school shootings - and suggestions by President Donald Trump that schools would be safer if some teachers packed guns - it was a political event.

    "my favorite teacher at Dalton high school just blockaded his door and

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