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Mitch PerryFebruary 18, 2018

Charlie Crist hopes things will be different this time around. Before a public appearance at Williams Park Saturday, the St. Petersburg Democrat said he was still unconvinced the Republican-led Congress will support gun control legislation, even after 17 people were massacred last week at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland. Several hundred people gathered in downtown St. […]

Scott PowersFebruary 16, 2018

Declaring that Republican leadership in Tallahassee has “transformed Florida into a petri dish of experimentation for the NRA” and “utterly failed to address public health and mental health care,” Democratic gubernatorial candidate Chris King said Friday he would fight the gun lobby, veto their bills, and seek to expand coverage and ban assault weapons. The […]

Mitch PerryFebruary 16, 2018

With Democrats and Republicans sharply divided on the issue of gun control and gun rights, it’s little surprise that less than 24 hours after 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz shot and killed 17 people at a Broward County school, the issues would come up in a race for a contested open seat in the Florida Senate. Democrat […]

Mitch PerryFebruary 16, 2018

Two weeks ago, Jacksonville Republican John Rutherford and Boca Raton Democrat Ted Deutch teamed up with two other members of Congress on legislation to improve local early intervention programs, an effort that will hopefully prevent school violence. One day after 17 people were slaughtered in his Congressional District — one of the worst acts of gun violence in […]

Staff ReportsFebruary 15, 2018

A law enforcement official says he knows of “no known ties” between the suspect who confessed to a deadly mass shooting at a Florida high school and a white supremacist group. Lt. Grady Jordan is a spokesman for the Leon County Sheriff’s Office in Tallahassee, where the white nationalist militia known as the Republic of […]

Ana CeballosFebruary 15, 2018

As the country grapples with the aftermath of a high school mass shooting in Broward County, Senate President Joe Negron said Thursday the upper chamber will be focused on boosting funding for mental health and campus security — not gun control. “I think that the key for me — and what I am focusing on […]

Mitch PerryFebruary 15, 2018

Wednesday’s shooting at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School hit home for Jeremy Ring — literally. The former state senator and Democratic chief financial officer candidate lives less than a mile from where America’s latest gun massacre took place. Ring became angry that in all the statements and news releases from Republicans over the previous 24 […]

A.G. GancarskiFebruary 15, 2018

Though much of the talk from elected officials and politicians in the wake of Wednesday’s mass shooting in Parkland has been of increased mental health screening and “school hardening,” there will be a legal case against Nikolas Cruz who killed 17 people at his old high school. Cruz made his first court appearance Thursday, and was […]

A.G. GancarskiFebruary 15, 2018

Less than 24 hours after Nicolas Cruz killed 17 people at the high school that expelled him in Parkland, Florida, President Donald Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions weighed in, as did Gov. Rick Scott and state leaders. State leaders vowed to devote resources to “school hardening” and ensuring that mentally ill people don’t have access to guns. The President […]

A.G. GancarskiFebruary 15, 2018

President Donald Trump has taken to Twitter on multiple occasions since Nicolas Cruz murdered 17 people at the Parkland school from which he was expelled. “So many signs that the Florida shooter was mentally disturbed, even expelled from school for bad and erratic behavior,” Trump tweeted Thursday. “Neighbors and classmates knew he was a big problem. Must […]

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At St. Pete vigil for Parkland shooting, calls for political action

Chris King releases post-Parkland proposal to address mental illness, ban guns

In wake of Parkland shooting, gun control become an issue in state Senate race

In wake of Parkland shooting, Ted Deutch urges Congress to pass school safety bill

Law enforcement says no known ties between Parkland shooter, white supremacist group

In wake of Parkland shooting, Senate focuses on mental health funding

Parkland resident Jeremy Ring angered by GOP leaders refusing to talk gun control

Pam Bondi: Parkland massacre ‘will be a death penalty case’

Federal, state leaders pitch mental health awareness, ‘school hardening’ in wake of Parkland massacre

‘So many signs’: Donald Trump responds to Parkland massacre