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A.G. GancarskiFebruary 20, 2018

The race between incumbent U.S. Rep. Al Lawson and former Jacksonville Mayor Alvin Brown, as of this week, is focused on the issue of guns. On Monday, Brown’s team found daylight between Lawson’s post-Parkland assertion “decrying ‘the stranglehold of the gun lobby'” and taking $2,500 from the political action committee of the National Rifle Association in August 2017. […]

Scott PowersFebruary 19, 2018

The League of Women Voters of Florida led a coalition of groups responding to last week’s Parkland mass shooting by urging the Florida Constitution Revision Commission to take up a proposed amendment to ban assault weapons. But at the commission’s second public hearing on its 37 proposals, held at the Maxwell C. King Center in […]

Peter SchorschFebruary 19, 2018

In “Posse Comitatus,” the third season finale of The West Wing, President Jed Bartlet (Martin Sheen) heads to New York to take in “The Wars of the Roses.” So does Bob Ritchie (James Brolin, playing a three-term Florida Governor and the Republican nominee in the 2002 presidential election) — only Ritchie is there to see a Yankee […]

Guest AuthorFebruary 19, 2018

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And there it is. The look. The look I knew I would see. And I will get it again and again, from this moment forward. I just didn’t expect it to happen so quickly. As my family checked in to our hotel tonight, after two nights of choppy, if any sleep, countless hours spent wandering […]

A.G. GancarskiFebruary 19, 2018

The world was shocked last week when a gunman took an Uber to his former high school in Parkland, Florida, and shot dozens of former classmates. Seventeen perished. Many more were wounded. And everyone in the school that day lived through an unimaginable terror. And, across the country and the world, people are doing what […]

Peter SchorschFebruary 17, 2018

With only three weeks left in the 2018 Legislative Session, the tragedy at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School is dominating the conversation in Tallahassee. Democrats have started making noise about Republicans obstructing their long-stalled gun control bills, while GOP-leaders have focused on the need for changes to mental health laws, and needed funding boosts. Gov. Rick […]

Guest AuthorFebruary 16, 2018

Like many of you, I have spent the last two days mourning the tragic loss of life at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, a loss of life that was caused by an assault rifle legally purchased in Coral Springs. This community lost daughters, sons, siblings, husbands, cousins and friends. Feb. 14, 2018, will forever be […]

Scott PowersFebruary 16, 2018

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Gwen Graham has expanded her response to Wednesday’s high school massacre from vowing to ban assault weapons if she is elected to calling on current Gov. Rick Scott to immediately suspend their sales. She also declared that Scott’s “legacy will forever be covered in blood” if he and the Legislature do not […]

A.G. GancarskiFebruary 16, 2018

As the nation mourns the massacre of 17 people in a Parkland High School, a Republican candidate for Attorney General asserts that calls for gun control are the province of “liberals on Fake News.” Rep. Jay Fant, a Jacksonville Republican, tweeted Friday that “Liberals on Fake News keep saying gun control is the answer. It’s not. […]

Scott PowersFebruary 16, 2018

Orlando Democratic U.S. Rep. Val Demings is lining up with the latest Democratic bill to restrict guns, a measure that would allow families to raise concerns about members who are found to be dangers to themselves or others and for judges to order police to confiscate those persons’ guns. Introduced by U.S. Rep. Salud Carbajal, a […]

Tag: Parkland

On guns, Al Lawson is not an orthodox Democrat

League of Women Voters urges gun ban amendment, Carlos Beruff dismisses it

Ron DeSantis appeared on Fox News for 11 minutes, didn’t once mention Parkland

Jill Beitscher Fox: ‘The look’

Jacksonville fundraiser for Parkland victims slated for Thursday

Takeaways from Tallahassee — A tragic dialogue

Joshua Simmons: Stop the posturing, do something about assault rifles

Gwen Graham: Rick Scott should address AR-15s or his legacy ‘will forever be covered in blood’

For Jay Fant, ‘liberals on Fake News’ are driving gun control debate

Val Demings pushes bill to seek gun restraining orders on people deemed dangerous