TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WFLA) — Lower than per week in the past, Florida State College changed into a criminal offense scene. Since then, FSU college students, advocates, and members of the neighborhood have held a number of rallies to name on state leaders, demanding them to take motion earlier than the present session wraps up.
Florida State college students, who lived by way of the frightened moments of the capturing, marched to the capitol to plead with state lawmakers.
Thursday’s capturing killed two males and injured six others, only one mile away from the statehouse.
“A 20-year-old with a gun was devastating my faculty and I watched from contained in the very constructing the place lawmakers have been debating a invoice to decrease the age to purchase a gun again all the way down to 18,” mentioned Samantha Mason, College students Demand Motion.
That invoice, House Bill 759, handed off of the home flooring a month in the past earlier than the capturing at Florida State. Nonetheless, its Senate companion invoice, SB 920, sponsored by Hillsborough County lawmaker, Jay Collins, appears to be stalled.
“Have a look at our faces, hearken to our tales, and know that we’re not going anyplace. You may have the ability to assist us. We’re not asking for miracles. We’re demanding widespread sense gun security legal guidelines that save lives,” mentioned Stephanie Horowitz, FSU Pupil.
Horowitz was a freshman at Marjory Stoneman Douglas when a 19-year-old killed 17 folks and wounded 17 others.
“4 of my mates died that day and I’ve been visiting their graves since, for the final seven years,” mentioned Horowitz.
Horowitz was educating a category final week at FSU when the suspected shooter Phoenix Ikner made his technique to the scholar union. Now, she is begging lawmakers to prioritize college students over weapons.
Contained in the statehouse on Wednesday, Senate members gathered for a session, and whereas there have been no talks of gun laws, there was a second of silence for the lives misplaced and people impacted.
“Final Thursday my FSU household…was rocked by reckless violence on our campus with six college students being shot and a couple of adults being killed,” mentioned State Senator Corey Simon, (R-Tallahassee). “At the moment I rise and ask for a second of silence for my Seminole household as we mourn these misplaced and the various lives which have been modified endlessly.”
Home Democrats are calling out their Republican colleagues, saying the Republican majority can waive the foundations at any time and permit any invoice at this level to be heard.
Senate President Ben Albritton, Home Speaker Daniel Perez, and Governor Ron DeSantis didn’t publicly tackle FSU college students’ issues about gun violence on Wednesday.
