WASHINGTON – Florida Gov. Rick Scott Sunday rejected a plan pitched by President Trump to arm certain teachers with guns as a solution to stop mass shootings.

“I disagree with him,” Scott, a Republican, told Fox News Sunday. “I believe you’ve got to focus on the people that are well-trained in law enforcement, that are trained to do this. I want to make sure we have significant law enforcement presence (at schools) on top of hardening the schools with metal detectors and bullet proof glass, better perimeter fencing.”

“I want our teachers to teach and our law enforcement officers to be able to protect the students. I want each group to focus on what they are good at.”

Trump said Friday to CPAC that if teachers at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School would have been allowed to carry concealed weapons, then the outcome would have been much different than the deaths of 17 students and adults.

“A teacher would have shot the hell out of him [Nikolas Cruz] before he knew what happened,” Trump said. “They love their students.”

Scott, who has enjoyed an A+ rating from the NRA, has broken with the National Rifle Association in putting forth a proposal to raise the age to 21 to buy all firearms and pass a “red flag” law to allow friends and family to report a person who shouldn’t have guns. His proposal to the Florida legislature also calls for the ban of bump stocks, spending $450 million on school security and $50 million to improve mental health services.

Scott said he supports the Second Amendment but he must weigh individual’s rights with public safety.

“I think most members of the NRA agree with me. This is logical,” Scott said. “I’m sure there’s going to be some that disagree. But I’m a dad. I’m a granddad and I’m a governor. I want my state to be safe. I want every child to be in a safe environment when they are trying to be educated.”

Scott isn’t backing an assault weapons ban or limits on magazine capacity, which student activists out of Parkland want. Activists believe the level of fatalities at these horrific mass shootings would be far less if civilians didn’t have access to so-called “weapons of war.”

“I’m not into banning specific weapons, I think what you need to do is ban certain people,” Scott said.

The governor added: “If you have mental illness, you shouldn’t have a gun. If you’ve threatened others or you’ve threatened yourself, you shouldn’t have a gun.”

“I’m going to make sure parents feel comfortable sending their kids to school,” Scott said.

Andrew Pollack, whose daughter Meadow was killed in the Parkland school shooting, expressed frustration that the interview between Scott and anchor Chris Wallace talked about guns and not making schools as fortified as airports and federal buildings with metal detectors.

“I just had to listen to you and Gov. Scott talk about gun control,” Pollack, a Long Island native, said.

“We don’t care about gun control right now, that’s a big issue in the country and you are not going to get everyone together… be we are going to get everyone together on fixing our schools.”

“It’s not about guns now…it’s about the safety of our schools.”

The grieving dad pleaded with lawmakers to do something now: “My kid isn’t here because the schools aren’t safe. That’s the main thing …My daughter’s death can’t be in vain. It has to be the last one.”