Parkland shooting

TALLAHASSEE, FL—As school shootings, dead students, and murdered educators become sickeningly more commonplace, a dark new trend has emerged to protect the most vulnerable: panic buttons on teachers. Attached to staff ID badges, teachers are told to press the button three times in an everyday emergency. For a school shooting? Don't stop pushing, the Washington […]

The US Senate has unanimously agreed to pass Senator Rick Scott’s (R-FL) resolution honoring the victims of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018.  The resolution comes on the eve of the shooting and honors “the memories of the victims of the senseless attack.” Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) cosponsored the resolution.  The […]

TALLAHASSEE, FL—Nearly six years after the school shooting at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas that left 17 dead, Florida moves to lower the firearm purchasing age from 21 back to 18. "Restoring the rights of young adults to purchase a long gun for not only self-defense but for sporting is very important in my rural area," HB […]

Broward Sheriff Gregory Tony has now responded to the ruling, sharing that he also disagrees with the verdict.

The congressional contest between Rep. Lois Frankel (D) and Conservative journalist Laura Loomer has taken a sharp turn towards the political gutter as Rep. Frankel’s recent tweet invoking the tragic Parkland school shooting has reopened the painful wounds that families from the school have suffered through. The political expedient tweet came out of nowhere and […]

In an effort to combat gun violence and ensure that schools are safer since the tragic Parkland shooting, President Trump met with family members of the Parkland victims along with Florida Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart (R).