Blake DowlingFebruary 16, 2019
6min196
Is arming teachers a good idea?
Tag: school shootings
Blake DowlingFebruary 16, 2019
Jacob OglesFebruary 11, 20197min463
Surveillance cameras and security guards monitor more campus, but school shootings remain rare.
Scott PowersMay 30, 2018
3min244
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Philip Levine is launching a new digital commercial with a pledge he “won’t wait one second” to push for stronger background checks and a ban on assault rifles. In the 30-second video “How Much More?” Levine and his wife Carolina appear with their family and discuss school shootings, as she declares, “Philip […]
Scott PowersMarch 2, 2018
4min379
Florida’s Democratic U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson was conspicuously absent from a meeting President Donald Trump convened Wednesday in the West Wing with key lawmakers and stakeholders in the gun violence debate following the Parkland massacre, and on Friday he dismissed the meeting as show, and predicted Trump will pivot from assurances he made there. Speaking […]
Scott PowersFebruary 26, 2018
5min253
A set of three new proposed bills in the Florida House announced Monday seek to make significant changes in the state’s gun laws. Among the proposals: Raise the minimum age for buying a gun in Florida to 21, expand the three-day waiting period to cover the purchase of all firearms, ban “bump stocks,” and create […]
Danny McAuliffeFebruary 20, 2018
4min352
In the wake of the tragedy at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, some lawmakers plan to exempt photos and videos of school shootings from public records laws. The plan has yet to be codified into a bill, but legislators reached a verbal agreement on Tuesday at the final Senate Criminal Justice Committee meeting […]
Associated PressOctober 12, 2015
3min276
With recent shootings on college campuses in Oregon and Arizona, Tallahassee Community College president Jim Murdaugh has received plenty of questions from staff and students about Florida’s plans to deal with such incidents. The main thing he has stressed to them is that everything has been well planned. “I would say Florida has been progressive […]