Some pushed mental health funding, while others focused on gun control.
Politicians and candidates for House and Senate proposed different solutions for preventing mass shootings in the wake of Wednesday’s attack in Parkland.
Some pushed mental health funding while others focused on gun control.
Here’s what some lawmakers who represent the Treasure Coast and some candidates who want to unseat them said after the Parkland shooting.
In a press conference Friday, Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson told reporters he’d like to see:
“I have hunted all my life, I still hunt with my son,” he said. “But an AR-15 is not for hunting, it’s for killing.”
Republican Sen. Marco Rubio said Thursday he does not believe gun laws would have prevented the tragedy.
“If someone’s decided, ‘I’m going to commit this crime,’ they’ll find a way to get the gun to do it,” Rubio said. “That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t have a law that makes it harder. It just means, understand, to be honest, it isn’t going to stop this from happening.”
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“We need to learn how the system failed to stop this troubled youth,” Rep. Bill Posey said in a statement posted on his website Thursday.
Posey, who represents Indian River and other counties, is a sponsor of the Stop School Violence Act, spokesperson George Cecala told TCPalm.
The bill would provide $50 million to schools each year to:
Republican Rep. Brian Mast, who lived in Parkland before moving to Palm City, told National Public Radio Friday he’d like to see:
He also placed some blame on violence in pop culture.
17 innocent people are dead, mowed down by a gunman with a military-style assault weapon. 17 lives were cut short. 17 families are unnecessarily grieving. Parkland is mourning. And the country is yet again offering thoughts and prayers.
Democrat Lauren Baer pleaded for common-sense gun legislation in a statement to TCPalm. She said she’d like to see:
“Thoughts and prayers are not enough; it is time for meaningful congressional action,” Baer said in the statement.
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Democrat Pam Keith, a Navy veteran, pushed lawmakers to rethink how they look at weapons. She said she would like to see:
Posey’s democratic opponent in the District 8 race said in a Facebook post he would like to see lawmakers work together to provide changes after the shooting. He did not reply to an interview request from TCPalm about specifics.
