Yahoo News Charlize Theron slams Trump's plan to arm teachers
Charlize Theron has called Donald Trump's plan to arm school teachers as a response to gun violence "outrageous".
Speaking at the Global Education and Skills Forum in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Charlize – whose mother killed her abusive father with a gun – revealed her contempt for the proposal.
"I just don't understand when people try to make the conversation, the argument that the fix is more guns," she said (via Fox News).
"It is so outrageous to me. I lost my father to gun violence," she added, before adding that people should "listen to our kids" to solve the problem.
The comments come one month after the Parkland shooting in Florida, which saw 17 people killed and countless others injured when a gunman invaded Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Valentine's Day.
As well as a social media campaign led by surviving students under the #neveragain, other celebrity protestors include Samuel L Jackson, who slammed Trump for considering the 'flawed plan' to arm educators.
"Can someone that's been in a Gunfight tell that Muthaf***a that's Never been in a Gunfight, the flaws of his Arm The Teachers plan??!!" the Pulp Fiction star wrote on Twitter on February 23.
Trump previously blamed gun violence on video games and movies, arguing: "I'm hearing more and more people saying the level of violence in video games is really shaping young people's thoughts.
"And then you go the further step, and that's the movies. You see these movies, and they're so violent. A kid is able to see the movie if sex isn't involved, but killing is involved, and maybe we need to put a ratings system for that."
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