Tag: Florida

President Trump said armed teachers could end a shooting earlier than first-responders, who sometimes arrive after the gunman is finished. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Trump tells school shooting victims that arming teachers may be the answer

Steven Nelson · February 21, 2018 10:48 pm

Florida Gov. Rick Scott plans to meet with students and state lawmakers to discuss how they can ensure the deadly school shooting that occurred last week doesn't happen again. (Scott Keeler/Tampa Bay Times via AP)

Gov. Rick Scott meets with Florida shooting survivors

Melissa Quinn · February 21, 2018 10:31 pm

"It's not going to be talk like it has been in the past," Trump told several students who survived the recent massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and were invited to personally deliver their suggestions to the president to prevent future shootings. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

‘We’re going to get it done’: Trump promises change to survivors of Parkland shooting

Gabby Morrongiello · February 21, 2018 9:46 pm

Just two days before CPAC was set to kick off, David Clarke advanced the conspiracy theory that Florida students advocating for gun control in the wake of last week's mass shooting were acting as part of an organized campaign with "George Soros' fingerprints all over it." (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Beltway Confidential

Inviting David Clarke to CPAC is a gift to the Left

Emily Jashinsky · February 21, 2018 9:11 pm

The National Rifle Association.

Beltway Confidential

Here’s why the CNN gun control town hall is a lose-lose for the NRA

Becket Adams · February 21, 2018 8:49 pm

For those quick to grab guns, we should ask whether it is out of love for people, or hatred for things. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Beltway Confidential

The mass shooting cycle continues: More solutions to problems we don’t have

Matthew Larosiere · February 21, 2018 6:25 pm

Hundreds from each high school — Richard Montgomery High School in Rockville, Md.; Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, Md.; and Bethesda Chevy Chase High School in Bethesda, Md. — left school buildings at 9:30 a.m. (Images courtesy screenshot)

Scores of Maryland high school students stage walk-outs, take Metro trains to Washington for gun reform protests at Capitol: WATCH

Anna Giaritelli · February 21, 2018 3:59 pm

The NRA has accepted an invitation from CNN to participate in a town hall with students and parents affected by the mass shooting in Parkland, Fla. (Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg)

NRA accepts invitation to CNN town hall on guns

Caitlin Yilek · February 21, 2018 3:01 pm

People shop for guns at a gun show. Current laws prohibit federally licensed firearm dealers from selling long gun rifles or shotguns to someone under 18, and cannot sell handguns to someone under 21. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

Trump has discussed raising the minimum age for gun purchases: Report

Katelyn Caralle · February 21, 2018 2:45 pm

"This could affect your grandchild, or your child," Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy said. "You're going to see people in your state killed in restaurants, and movie theaters, and schools, and in churches." (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)

Connecticut governor: Shootings are ‘coming to your neighborhood’

Pete Kasperowicz · February 21, 2018 1:16 pm

"Ask politicians, ask people who represent their constituents if they support school safety, if they support public safety, if they support talking action to prevent more slaughters like the one that happened in Parkland from happening anyplace else," said Rep. Ted Deutch, D-Fla. "That's the way this debate has to go, and because of these kids I think that's the way it's going to start being addressed." (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

National Security

Florida Democrat: We need to focus on ‘school safety,’ not ‘gun control’

Katelyn Caralle · February 21, 2018 1:01 pm

Hundreds of Americans have taken to the streets to campaign for stricter gun laws over the past week after a deadly school shooting in Florida took 17 lives. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)

Gun control is a fantasy. Start a realistic conversation about preventing school massacres

Washington Examiner · February 21, 2018 5:01 am