The gun grabbing teens at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School are going to be butt hurt about this. The Florida Senate just rejected a proposal to ban AR-15s and voted in favor of arming teachers.
The Florida Senate rejected a proposal to ban assault weapons, and voted for a measure to arm some teachers, weeks after 17 people were killed in the deadliest high school shooting in U.S. history.
An amendment that would have banned assault weapons attached to a wider bill failed on Saturday in a largely party-line vote, in response to the Feb. 14 killing of 14 students and three faculty at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in the Fort Lauderdale suburb of Parkland.
The vote was 20-17 against the assault weapon ban, with two Republicans joining all of the senate’s 15 Democrats in support of the proposal, the Miami Herald reported.
The full bill, the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Act, is expected to pass the state Senate on Monday, then go to the Florida House.
Banning the AR-15 is retarded. There are millions of law abiding gun owners who don’t go on rampage killings. The Florida school shooting happened because of a failure in law enforcement.
Allowing teachers to carry concealed is a good idea though. The only reason all these mass shootings have happened is because we have gun free zones. It makes them targets for bat shit crazy people.
It is good to see that the Florida Senate made the right decisions here. We’ll see where it goes from here.
