Steve Bannon calls for arming kids with guns to stop school bullying

Conservative podcast host Steve Bannon said that children should be taught to handle guns in school so they are not "picked on" by bullies.

During a program at Turning Point USA's America Fest on Tuesday, Bannon lamented that gun classes were not taught to young students in most schools.

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"We should get kids off social media and start teaching them the proper use of guns, how to defend themselves, their own self-defense," the firebrand conservative said.

"Should we not make that an integrated part of the education so they're not picked on or not threatened and certainly not scared, right?" he told the crowd to cheers.

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