Other students were much more critical of the bill.
“I’m asking for people to be more aware”, said Cohen.
Anthony Borges, who was shot five times during the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, is the first to file documents related to a lawsuit.
She also would have liked a ban on assault-style rifles, like numerous students who traveled to the state Capitol to ask lawmakers to go even further to stop future mass shootings. “It felt so close to home“, she said.
“My community was rocked”. “Even though we face different types of gun violence, we all feel the same way after having experienced it”, Gonzalez said, as seen on cell phone video of the meeting.
“The recent shooting in Parkland, Florida, combined with other tragic shootings from Sandy Hook to Columbine, was on their minds”, Gauen said in the letter. An aide for a Florida legislator alleged that the students in the city of Parkland, where a lone 19-year-old gunman took 17 lives on February 14, actually were “crisis actors” pretending to be students. Scott also opposes arming teachers. School shootings have taken over the media.
“We ask that this be a quiet, reflective time out of respect for the 17 lives that were lost”, Gauen’s letter said. “They’ve got the passion”, Pfleger said.
Walmart, which had already banned sales of assault rifles in its stores since 2015, raised the age limit for gun purchases in stores to 21, while Dicks Sporting Goods moved to ban sales of assault rifles in its stores. A teacher in Cherry Hill was suspended after a student complained about the instructor voicing concerns about the school’s security to students.
Earlier this week, LA City Attorney Mike Feuer announced the formation of a panel of community members, law enforcement, teacher union members and students.
A student at Sunrise Mountain High School was arrested Friday for making threats against the school. The 37-year-old graduated from Stoneman Douglas in 1999 and worked mainly with the junior varsity, living in nearby Coral Springs with his wife and daughter.
“You know what that means in my experience?”
If anything, there was a lesson in it for the rest of us: That we can’t go on like this. “There’s a difference”, said Johnson.
High school students leading the way for change after Parkland have organized numerous activism events including a national march and a national School Walk Out day.
It’s great to see the National Hockey League, and the Panthers, contributing to making a difference in the community.
“It’s not a political thing”, Adams said. “If he was a dues-paying member, I would certainly have a problem with how we are trying him in the public and not giving him his due process”.