Conor McGregor calls for armed guards at every school after Nashville shooting
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UFC superstar Conor McGregor called for “armed protection” at every school Thursday following Monday’s deadly school shooting in Nashville, Tennessee.
“I would like to see armed protection at each school also. I have had my children at school here while stateside and have had my own armed guard present at the school,” McGregor, a 34-year-old father of three young children, tweeted. “This was prior to the most recent school shooting also.”
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The former two-division champion made the suggestion after receiving an Amber Alert while in Orlando, Florida, and he discussed what would happen if schools had armed guards like the one he sends his children to school with.
“If [the Nashville shooter] shot her way in to that school from the outside, my guard, who is tucked away, armed and unseen, would have seen her and taken her down,” he said. “Saving those children’s lives.”
McGregor ended his message with a prayer.
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“May God and his best people on this earth protect our children!” he said.
Three students and three adults died at the Covenant School after 28-year-old Audrey Hale, a biological woman who identified as a transgender man, entered the school with two assault-style guns and a 9 mm pistol.