Feis, an assistant football coach and security guard at the school of 3,200 students on the edge of the Florida Everglades, was among 17 gunned down by a former student who police said returned to the school with an AR 15 assault-style rifle just before dismissal on February 14.
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In the wake of national contempt – including from the President – being heaped on the Broward County deputy who did not rush to aid people being shot to death inside Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School – allegations have arisen that more deputies may also have waited.
“Then this happened”, Cullen said, “and everything changed”. She said she didn’t think he was actually listening to the students.
But Israel doesn’t need to rely on those reports – his office is hearing it directly from his colleagues in Coral Springs, he said.
He insisted that a concealed carry policy for around one fifth of America’s teachers would deter shooters. Many want all semi-automatic rifles banned.
That proposal put the Republican governor at odds with the National Rifle Association, which has opposed higher age limits in Florida, where a person must be at least 21 to buy a handgun but can be as young as 18 to purchase an assault rifle.
Israel also announced an investigation into how two other deputies had handled warnings about the gunman prior to the shooting. “That is not the answer”.
“Keeping guns away from risky people and people with mental issues is what we need to do”, he said.
“Everything was quiet, and looked like it was frozen in time”, said Greg Pittman, a social studies teacher.
The entrance to the parking lot was guarded by law enforcement officers who checked teacher IDs before allowing them in for what is scheduled as a planning day.
Students across the nation, including some of our own students, have staged peaceful protests in response to the Stoneman Douglas High School tragedy in Florida and the discussion around gun control legislation during the past few days.
When a bill to arm school staff members was debated in the state Senate in June, 16 educators who survived the mass shooting at Sandy Hook sent a note to senators before they cast their votes.
Paul Ryan, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, offered a textbook example of the play last week, telling a Florida woman that he “didn’t want to talk politics”, while holding a campaign fundraiser less than an hour’s drive from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, the site of the shooting.
Individual admissions officials on Twitter reassured peaceful protesters that they wouldn’t let any negative marks from the demonstrations affect their college acceptance decisions.
Trump proposed measures preventing the mentally ill from obtaining weapons and to “really strengthen up background checks” for gun buyers. Someone told it wasn’t the right time to talk about what I went through. There has been no mass shooting since.
Peterson resigned from the $75,000 a year job after being informed he was suspended without pay pending an investigation by internal affairs investigators, Israel said. “They know what to expect from law enforcement and law enforcement knows what to expect from schools”.
So, right now, conservatives are engaged in a two-pronged attempt to take it back.
“I don’t know if many people are ready for it”, she said. Highly trained teachers would also serve as a deterrent to the cowards that do this.
Mr Israel said he would not yet release the video and may never do so “depending on the prosecution and criminal case” against Nikolas Cruz, the 19-year-old former student who is charged with 17 counts of premeditated murder.
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Other calls to the police were from Cruz’s late mother, Linda, after she was involved in altercations with her son or he was fighting with his brother.
