Republican 2024 Candidates Call for More Law Enforcement in Schools After Tennessee Shooting

Two of the top 2024 Republican presidential candidates are calling for more law enforcement in schools after a deadly shooting at an elementary school in Tennessee.
“The real question is why this criminal was able to get into that school in Nashville in the first place, right?” Vivek Ramaswamy, one of the candidates, said in a video statement. “We protect our banks, green pieces of paper sitting in the bank account, more effectively than we protect our kids in schools.”
Ramaswamy has proposed the abolishment of the U.S. Department of Education, arguing that it’s ineffective.
With just a quarter of the department’s budget, “we could have 2-3 armed marshals in every public school in America—to ensure something like this never happens again,” he wrote in a Facebook post on March 27 after the shooting occurred….}