A.G. Gancarski
Sen. Marco Rubio discussed the latest mass shooting on Fox and Friends Thursday.
Former student Nicolas Cruz killed 17 people with an AR-15 Wednesday, at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland.
Rubio said that when an “individual decides in a premeditated and orchestrated way” to do something like this, “it can happen anywhere.”
“There was a running joke — it’s not a joke anymore — that he would come back” and do something like this, Rubio said.
Rubio noted that there had been “police complaints” about the shooter.
“It’s a guy that’s putting all these things on social media, a guy [with a history] of threatening people in school,” Rubio remarked.
“Parkland is one of the safest communities in America,” Rubio said. “This is an isolated incident — a catastrophic and tragic one.”
The weight of evidence suggests that such incidents are becoming increasingly less isolated.
The Guardian notes that there have already been eight mass shootings at schools in 2018 that have resulted in injury or death.
At one point on the program, Rubio said that these incidents need to be looked at “in their totality.”
Rubio is getting criticism from gun control advocates for the amount of National Rifle Association money he has garnered in campaign donations.
The New York Daily News tweeted that Rubio has “received $90,205 in campaign donations from gun rights groups during the 2015-2016 campaign cycle and received an ‘A+’ grade from the NRA. Rubio has received $3,303,355 over the course of his career as an elected official.”
That is the sixth most NRA money given to any Senator.
Rubio followed Florida Gov. Rick Scott on the same program.
Scott told Fox and Friends that “something has to change here,” wondering “how could anybody do something like this.”
“I want every parent to wake up every day and say my child is going to a safe school,” Scott added.
Scott, when asked about mass shootings in the past, has said they were “evil” and recommended “more prayer.”
One comment
Tony Branch
February 15, 2018 at 8:16 am
Enough from Senator Rubio! It’s sad to hear such “nothing can be done about it” nonsense from an American politician.
That doesn’t explain why deaths from gunfire in the U.S. are fifty and a hundred times per person they are in most European countries and even neighboring Canada. That doesn’t explain why the rate of deaths from gunfire in states that have sensible gun laws (even adhering to the 2nd Amendment) such as Connecticut and California are far less per person than Florida.
We need a complete investigation and set of hearings as to the many things that can be done to stem the rise of gun deaths in this country (18 shootings in schools this year so far!!) while still adhering to the Second Amendment
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