Anne Geggis
U.S. Rep. Jared Moskowitz is bringing congressional colleagues from both sides of the aisle to his alma mater before the building that was the site of the state’s worst school shooting gets demolished.
The Parkland Democrat, with Republican U.S. Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, extended an invitation to tour Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Aug. 4 to experience the urgent need to improve school safety.
“See firsthand how a school shooting can affect families and a community,” the July 21 invitation from Moskowitz and Diaz-Balart reads. “Immediately following the tour, members will have the opportunity to meet with survivors and parents to discuss the challenges children face at school and help find ways to mitigate these present dangers.”
The tour is happening the same day as a re-enactment of the massacre that left 17 dead and 17 others injured. The re-enactment is part of an effort to resolve a lawsuit, which may be the end of legal proceedings requiring preserving the building as-is. Demolition could come as soon as next month.
The word “gun” is not mentioned in the invite. Some shooting survivors have been torn on whether better school safety should mean more gun regulations.
Moskowitz and Diaz-Balart are members of the Congressional Bipartisan School Safety and Security Caucus. In February, the two South Florida lawmakers refiled the EAGLES Act, which would reauthorize and expand the U.S. Secret Service National Threat Assessment Center (NTAC) to conduct additional research and training to prevent targeted violence. The bill, named for the Parkland high school’s mascot, was first introduced in 2019.
Max Schachter, who lost his son Alex in the Valentine’s Day 2018 carnage, challenged all leaders in a July 15 tweet to walk beside him and confront the scene in the 1200 building before it’s torn down. The building has stood unoccupied and silent for most of the last five years as legal issues surrounding what happened that fateful day are resolved.
“I want YOU to understand what happened …” tweeted Schachter, who started Safe Schools for Alex, a foundation researching best school safety practices. “Work with me to prevent this from happening again.”
Schachter noted that 23 days after leaders from the Florida Legislature walked through the site in 2018, meaningful legislation was passed — preventing those younger than 21 from purchasing long guns and allowing judges to take guns away from people deemed a danger to themselves and others through what is known as a red flag law.
5 comments
Dont Say FLA
July 27, 2023 at 2:38 pm
So much fun that the Civil War Re-enactors got a new hobby now that celebrating the Civil War is no longer socially acceptable.
We look down our noses at civilizations that tossed children into volcanoes to appease their gods, but we do the same nonsense and it’s not even for some deity. It’s just for 2A related profits.
The 2A guarantees the right to bear arms, but it does not guarantee any right to profits. USA needs to end 2A related profits off personal sales to individuals TODAY.
Plenty of guns are sold to the military and abroad to make profit. 2A industry needs to sell to US Citizens in the USA at cost, making profit off sales to the military and abroad, but never off purchases by private US citizens.
If 2A related manufacturers and retailers can’t do that, they need to get out the 2A business. The end.
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Tear down school shooting schools, but leave Confederate statues in place? Yeah, that makes sense. I bet Rhonda names the new school after some Confederate (Losing) General
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Ocean Joe
July 27, 2023 at 3:40 pm
Must give Moskowitz credit, despite the Pee Wee Herman haircut and service in the Desantis administration, he’s doing a good job.
We need to restore the assault weapons ban ASAP. You make a fortress out of schools, then what about buses. Or playgrounds. Or movie theaters. Or shopping malls. Why is an interpretation of the Second Amendment from the days of muskets allowed to destroy the American way of life?
Ocean Joe
July 27, 2023 at 3:40 pm
Must give Moskowitz credit, despite the Pee Wee Herman haircut and service in the Desantis administration, he’s doing a good job.
We need to restore the assault weapons ban ASAP. You make a fortress out of schools, then what about buses. Or playgrounds. Or movie theaters. Or shopping malls. Why is an interpretation of the Second Amendment from the days of muskets allowed to destroy the American way of life?
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