President Trump Donald John TrumpBiden leads Trump by 36 points nationally among Latinos: poll Trump dismisses climate change role in fires, says Newsom needs to manage forest better Jimmy Kimmel hits Trump for rallies while hosting Emmy Awards MORE's proposal to arm specially trained teachers and staff to ward off potential school shooters is facing pushback from teachers, according to a new poll.

Nearly three out of four teachers, 73 percent, say they are against providing special training for teachers and staff to carry firearms in schools, while 20 percent support the idea, according to a Gallup poll released Friday.

If such training were provided to teachers, 82 percent of the K-12 teachers who were surveyed said they would not apply for the training while 18 percent said they would.

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Trump has become a vocal proponent of arming specially trained teachers in the wake of the Parkland, Fla., high school shooting last month that left 17 people dead.

The president floated the idea in tweets and at a White House listening session with parents and community members affected by Parkland and other school shootings.

Of the teachers who oppose having guns in schools, 47 percent said it would be "not effective at all" in limiting the number of victims of a school shooting, according to Gallup. A majority, 58 percent, also said schools would be less safe with armed teachers.

The online survey of 497 K-12 teachers was conducted March 5–12, less than one month after the Parkland shooting. It has a margin of error of 7 percentage points.