Feis was a victim in the February 14 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland. Scott has proposed hiring more school resource officers instead of arming teachers.
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Pollack noted he has no problem with the students marching against guns once schools are made safer. The shooter, Nikolas Jacob Cruz, used an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle to carry out the massacre – a gun that would have been included in the failed assault weapons ban.
It still includes a bump stocks ban, allows law enforcement to seize weapons from those deemed mentally ill and likely pose a threat, and raises the minimum age a person can buy any gun to 21.
State politicians back a three-day waiting period for any gun purchase and the raising of the legal purchase age to 21. As House Speaker Paul Ryan told people to “take a breath and collect the facts”, there were young people whose breathless bodies laid in morgues. That’s the controversial provision allowing designated teachers to carry firearms on school grounds, if they are deputized and complete law enforcement training. He was joined by others from his department that hid behind their vehicles as the killer mowed down the helpless students and teaching staff. The lawmakers passed an “opt-in” program as a last-minute amendment, according to the Miami Herald. I want that to sink in.
“What bill are we talking about here?” An officer may file for a Risk Protection Order with a court, and if they can convince the court the person in question is unsafe they can temporarily seize the guns. “I don’t think that’s our teachers at all”, Porter said.
“Legislators are advocating this arming teachers proposal can say whatever they want about it being voluntary”, Wasserman Shultz said. Helping schools increase safety is something we believe Congress should be able to agree on and it is something we can address right now to help prevent another tragedy.
“So what? We’ve bounced less meaningful pieces of legislation before”. Oscar Braynon II, the leader of the Democratic caucus, that would have stripped the marshals program from the bill.
“I’d like to see the governor veto that but I highly doubt that because he is an NRA supported coward”, Hogg stated. But this is not where I thought we would be.
“I support security in schools”. “What dawned on me was that he was dead”.
Acknowledging the difficulty of coming to an agreement, the bill’s sponsor, Republican state Sen.
More than three dozen of the Democrats’ other amendments also failed, nearly exclusively along party lines. The call came a day after Trump put Cornyn and other Republicans in the hot seat as he called for speedy and substantial changes to the nation’s gun laws in a televised meeting with a bipartisan group of lawmakers at the White House.
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Senator Bill Galvano responded, “That would be left to the sheriffs”.
