This week marks 8 years since the deadly Parkland school shooting. A bill moving through the Senate looks to reverse the age change signed into law because of the shooting.
Then, Florida Governor Rick Scott signed the bill into law three weeks after the shooting that killed 17 people.
“It was premature in my mind to put gun control, to assume that gun control is going to be a solution to the problem,” said Ryan Petty, whose daughter was killed in the shooting. “I think it’s done nothing to make our schools safer.”
Petty said there’s been progress in other ways, but he argues state legislators need to do things to actually protect schools.
“The law in Florida is it just restricts purchase of firearms from 18 to 21. It does not prohibit the possession of those. And so I, in my mind, he would have gotten access to a firearm or some other weapon and still carried out the attack on the school, you know, and my daughter and 16 others,” said Petty. “We have a right to self-defense, and we shouldn’t exclude 18 to 21-year-olds just because we feel like it might make a difference. Right. We need to do things we need to protect the rights of all Floridians, particularly our Second Amendment rights. And we need to do things that are actually going to protect our schools.”
— Parkland father says gun control measures were ‘premature’
The Parkland shooter left years of “red flags” and nobody wanted to stop him.
We would all be safer if we just stop tolerating a system that lets repeat schizos, psychos and angry narcissistic grown men in dresses roam freely among us.
The only reason anyone ever thinks these acts are a big shocking surprise is because we’ve all been trained to ignore the warning signs either through familial love or peer stigma.
Instead of having zero tolerance for these lunatics we’re taught and told to have zero tolerance for the rights of everyone else who isn’t a lunatic.