West Palm Beach, Florida (AP) – days after a deadly shooting on their campus, Florida State University students who also survived a mass shot in the park In 2018, sent a letter on Monday to the Republican Governor Ron Desantis demanding that he crushes efforts to reduce the age of buying firearms at 18.
The law which brought the age of purchase of minimum firearms at 21 was adopted as part of a firearm reform package after the 2018 mass shooting in Marjory Stoneman Douglas secondary school, which was one of the deadliest fire in the country. For these former park students and current FSU who sent the letter to the governor, it was their second school shoot.
One of the founders of March for Our Lives, a group formed following the shooting in Parkland, led a group of 28 students in writing the letter, calling it “unthinkable” and “dangerous” so that the legislative assembly plans to change the age of purchase of weapons at 18. Jaclyn Corin said that many students demanded the action in 2018 after the Park shooting are now FSU students who again demanded tragedy.
“There is no doubt that this law has saved lives in the past seven years, and therefore now it is quite ironic that it is the very law which is threatened in the aftermath of what is a lot of these same students who increased their voices, their second school shoot,” said Corin.
Desantis and republican legislators supported the measure, saying that if a person is old enough to be in the army, they should be able to buy a firearm.
Despite the support of the president of Florida, Daniel Perez, the president of the Senate Ben Albritton was more hesitant to measure. During a conference with journalists in March, Albritton was emotional telling his visit to the Parkland High School building where 17 people were killed. He said he was a life member of the National Rifle Association, but that he had not made a decision on the measure.
Thursday’s shooting in a university minute far from the Capitol of Florida could leave an uncertain future for the measure, because it has not yet been heard in the State Senate. The legislative session should end next week.
“Return it back to dishonor the lives we lost in Parkland and Tallahassee, and would be equivalent to a slap in the face to the survivors and the countless lives that the law helped to protect,” the letter said on Monday. “He ignores the trauma we carry. And he sends a clear message to students: the state of Florida considers our consumable lives.”
The Parkland shooter was a 19 -year -old child. He is now serving life in prison.
THURSDAY, A 20 -year -old FSU student opened fire near the student union, using the old service weapon of its deputy Sheriff Stepparent. Two people were killed and six injured.
In a statement on Monday morning, Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare announced that three patients had been released from the hospital and that they planned that two others were released later during the day. The sixth patient remaining is in “good condition”. ___ This story has been corrected to fix the spelling of Jaclyn Corin’s first name.
