Florida families call for action on gun bill

The Senate narrowed a controversial provision in the bill that would allow teachers to be armed.

The Senate rejected almost four dozen Democratic amendments to the bill that was introduced by conservative Republicans. Florida has among the loosest gun regulations in the nation. Some $200 million is set aside for grant programs to harden schools in the state while $69 million would go to fund mental health services.

He doesn’t want to see teachers carrying guns in schools, but what Washington Rep. Rick Larsen does want is to fund additional safety. Bill Montford of Tallahassee.

Sen. Lauren Book, D-Plantation, was among the senators who voted yes.

Oregon’s bill is the first of any state to tighten firearm regulations since the February 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., that killed 14 students and three educators.

“My focus is to try to make a whole lot of these”, said Fellman. But there are others in this who have embraced it. Republican Sen. Bill Galvano said he asked for and received the approval of Feis’ family before proposing the amendment. “We have to ban high-capacity magazines”, said Wasserman Schultz. “What we are doing in mental health is something that we should have done 10, 20 years ago”.

“Work with the president and fix the schools”.

The issue of arming teachers has been a major point of contention in debate over the bill.

“This is an idea that will result in loss of life, however well-intentioned, because it’s nearly a fog of war situation, and the people who are there are not soldiers and they are not law enforcement”, said state Rep. Joe Geller, D-Aventura. “Today is our day to be strong”.

Local school officials, of course, examined many of these same issues in the wake of the 2012 killings at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in CT.

Others, though, did not want to take the risk. Doing so would mean calling the legislature back into session, leading to more amendments and back-and-forth that “wouldn’t end well”.

The Legislature wraps up its annual session on Friday. As history has sadly showed us time and time again is that school staff members are willing to sacrifice themselves for their students.

We will continue to fight back and let our voices be heard; one thing we will not do is give up. Rene Garcia, R-Hialeah, who sponsored the amendment.

They argued that a ban on any specific weapon would be unconstitutional, and the first step toward confiscating guns from law-abiding citizens, according to the Tampa Bay Times. But some of the rural counties are already trying it out and I think it will go forward there, but not just with people who are exclusively classroom teachers.