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Sparks flew during Monday’s CNN Tonight as conservative radio host Ben Ferguson went up against liberal anti-gun activists host Don Lemon and commentator Joan Walsh. The topic was teachers carrying guns in school with Ferguson explaining to them how he had talked with teachers wanted to volunteer to do it, but Walsh and Lemon lashed out by first calling into question their credibility as teachers to then attacking their intelligence and claiming they were all being “nonsensical.”
“I've talked to first-grade teachers literally the last week who have called into my show and said they want to be able to carry guns. Not all teachers. It's something that shouldn't be mandated to do,” Ferguson recalled. “And a lot of them have said they would love to be in a position to be able to be a first responder. They’re already giving back by teaching. Why shouldn’t they be able to give back by protecting as well?”
Lemon seemed very skeptical that a teacher would hold an opinion different from the liberal ones he associated with. “Do you know they are teachers or are they just people calling into your radio show,” he chided. Ferguson then talked about a teacher who had visited him in his studio and carried a gun every day but couldn’t bring it to class. She was also willing to pay for special training herself.
“You know, Ben, I'm going to grant you these people are real that call into your show, but we both have to acknowledge this is a minority of teachers and it’s a minority of parents,” Walsh sneered, obviously skeptical even though one had visited him. “And I don't think teachers need to add that to the things they're already doing, the cost of a gun to all the pencils and the paper and all the things they're not even paid for,” she rambled on.
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