Carrying signs with slogans such as “If they choose guns
over our kids, vote them out,” protesters in Washington jammed
Pennsylvania Avenue as students from the Parkland, Florida, high school
where 17 people were shot to death called on lawmakers and President
Donald Trump to confront the issue.
The massive March For Our Lives rallies, some led by student survivors from Parkland, aim
to break legislative gridlock that has long stymied efforts to increase
restrictions on firearms sales in a nation where mass shootings like the
one on Feb. 14 at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School have become
frighteningly common.
[3/21/18] Obamas' letter to Parkland students
[3/14/18] Thousands of students walk out to protest gun violence
[3/10/18] NRA files lawsuit to block school safety bill
[3/9/18] Florida Governor Rick Scott signs compromise school safety bill
[3/7/18] Two great moral crusades (Dan Boylan, Midweek, page 10)
[2/28/18] Trump spars with GOP on gun control and school safety
[2/28/18] Dick's Sporting Goods to stop selling assault-style rifles
[2/26/18] Trump believes he would have run in there even he didn't have a weapon / yes this guy
[2/24/18] Florida’s governor announced plans Friday to put more armed guards in schools and to make it harder for young adults and some with mental illness to buy guns, responding to days of intense lobbying from survivors of last week’s shooting at a Florida high school.
Scott, a Republican widely expected to run for the Senate, outlined his plan at a Tallahassee news conference. In addition to banning firearm sales to anyone under 21, the governor called for a trained law-enforcement officer for every school – and one for every 1,000 students at larger schools – by the time the fall 2018 school year begins.
[2/24/18] PARKLAND, Fla. >> The progression has become numbingly repetitive — mass bloodshed unleashed by a gunman, followed by the stories of the fallen, the funerals, the mourning, the talking heads and the calls for change that dwindle into nothingness.
The shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, though, has some pondering the improbable: Could this latest carnage actually lead to gun reforms?
Alongside the familiar refrains stemming from earlier shootings, the Feb. 14 attack in Parkland, Florida, came with something else: young survivors immediately pleading for nationwide action. They have led walk-outs, confronted politicians and garnered the support of celebrities, linking their sorrowful, eloquent, outraged voices to the gun debate.
“Our kids have started a revolution,” Stoneman Douglas teacher Diane Wolk Rogers said during a CNN-sponsored forum Wednesday.
[2/22/18] Trump says minimum age for owning guns should be 21
[2/21/18] Trump argues for arming teachers (concealed carry)
[2/20/18] Gun enthusiast destroys his AR-15
[2/20/18] WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he has signed a memo directing the Justice Department to propose regulations to "ban all devices" like the rapid-fire bump stocks involved in last year's Las Vegas massacre.
Seeking to show action days after a deadly school shooting in Parkland, Florida, Trump spoke during a White House ceremony recognizing bravery by the nation's public safety officers.
The announcement came days after the shooting deaths of 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. The device Trump referred to was used in the October shooting deaths of 58 people in Las Vegas, and attached to a half-dozen of the long guns found in the shooter's hotel room. A legislative effort to ban the device fizzled out last year.
White House officials say the president will be meeting with students, teachers and state and local officials to discuss ways of providing more school safety and address gun violence. Pressure has been mounting for action after the Parkland shooting.
[2/18/18] A prominent Republican political donor demanded on Saturday that the party pass legislation to restrict access to guns, and vowed not to contribute to any candidates or electioneering groups that did not support a ban on the sale of military-style firearms to civilians.
Al Hoffman Jr., a Florida-based real estate developer who was a leading fund-raiser for George W. Bush’s campaigns, said he would seek to marshal support among other Republican political donors for a renewed assault weapons ban.
“For how many years now have we been doing this — having these experiences of terrorism, mass killings — and how many years has it been that nothing’s been done?” Mr. Hoffman said in an interview. “It’s the end of the road for me.”
Mr. Hoffman announced his ultimatum in an email to half a dozen Republican leaders, including Jeb Bush and Gov. Rick Scott of Florida. He wrote in the email that he would not give money to Mr. Scott, who is considering a campaign for the Senate in 2018, or other Florida Republicans he has backed in the past, including Representative Brian Mast, if they did not support new gun legislation.
“I will not write another check unless they all support a ban on assault weapons,” he wrote. “Enough is enough!”
[2/14/18] On the afternoon of February 14, 2018, a mass shooting occurred at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, in the Miami metropolitan area. Seventeen people were killed and fifteen more were taken to hospitals, making it one of the world's deadliest school massacres.[1][2] The suspected perpetrator, Nikolas Cruz, was arrested shortly afterward and confessed to the shooting, according to the Broward County Sheriff's Office.[3] He was charged with 17 counts of premeditated murder.
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