"Teacher would have shot the hell out of him (attacker) before he knew what happened," Trump said.

Trump made the remarks in a speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Maryland. CPAC is considered the biggest annual event in American conservative politics and has taken place since 1974.

“We want to ensure when there are warning signs they are acted on. We protect our banks, airports, but not our school. It’s time to make our schools much harder targets” Trump said.

Trump also reiterated his call to restrict mentally ill people’s access to guns. “We have to really strengthen up background checks, for the mentally ill. We don’t want the mentally ill to have any form of weaponry,” he stated.