TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WFLA) — Following the deadly mass shooting at Florida State University, FSU college students gathered on the capitol Tuesday to name on lawmakers and the colleges administration to verify one thing like this by no means occurs once more.
College students are asking for extra protections inside their lecture rooms and round campus to make sure their security.
“We wanted these locks on our doorways,” mentioned Simon Monteleone, FSU freshman. “We wanted our college students to be protected, and in that point of want, our college students couldn’t really feel protected.”
Alarms blaring, college students working and combating for his or her lives and a sense undescribable for thus many. That was the truth for a whole lot at Florida State when an energetic shooter made his method via campus.
Simply up the street, a few mile away from campus is the state capitol, the place many lawmakers had been on that day.
“Once I transferred to Florida State College simply final fall, I by no means thought I might discover myself locked inside a classroom, texting family members not sure if I might ever see them once more,” mentioned Andres Perez, FSU scholar.
College students and Home Democrats united on the statehousea and referred to as on Republicans, the covernor and the college to make a change.
“Once I entered that room, a discovery that nobody ever desires to make once they’re hiding from an energetic shooter was made that day,” Monteleone mentioned. “The doorways inside Bellamy refused to lock.”
College students like Simon Monteleone, who was alone on the time the alarms of the energetic shooter went off, demanded the college require locks on classroom doorways, energetic shooter trainings for professors, TA’s, and college students, and psychological well being sources for these impacted.
Of their name for motion, in addition they need state lawmakers to listen to them loud and clear and take into account stronger gun reform subsequent legislative session.
“An absence of proactive planning and poor coverage on the hand of our legislators, there are two people who find themselves useless who should not be, 6 individuals within the hospital who should not be, 1000’s of scholars who now not really feel protected on campus, and a group that’s nonetheless reeling from a mindless act of violence, and no quantity of ideas and prayers goes to repair that,” mentioned Madalyn Propst, FSU freshman.
Echoing that response, Home Minority Chief Fentrice Driskell, D-Tampa, mentioned, “My religion tells me that I’m not to wish after which do nothing, and my expertise on this earth tells me that simply enthusiastic about a factor doesn’t change it.”
Driskell mentioned she has been in touch with FSU concerning the concern round locks on classroom doorways and let the college know that the legislature can accomplice with them to offer reform and extra sources to make that occur.
As for state Home Republicans, they weren’t on the press convention Tuesday to assemble with college students.
