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Jared Moskowitz (D): They're looking at their teenage son or daughter in pine boxes...
Time is of the essence.
State Legislator For Parkland, Fla., On Gun Control Measures
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SHAPIRO: And so how did you spend this weekend?
MOSKOWITZ: This weekend's been difficult. It's been going to funerals, going to vigils, talking to students, talking to parents. It's been dealing with the next three weeks of session, trying to get something accomplished. If we don't get it done by March 9, we don't meet again until December after the 2018 elections. I'm attending funerals where people are screaming and cursing into the microphone based on their anger. They're looking at their teenage son or daughter in pine boxes, ready to be put in the ground, all because they sent their kid to school. That's the only thing that they did.
And I think to myself, I have a 4 year old. What if the shooter didn't go to Douglas? He went around the corner to my son's preschool. And what if he had gotten to my child? Would I decide to bury my son in his favorite pajamas? Would I take his favorite stuffed animal? These are the things that have been going through my head as I watch parents go through that identical exercise with their teenage child.
And I think to myself it has to be different. Washington is broken. Nothing's going to happen in Washington. But Tallahassee has three weeks. We have three weeks. We have a unique opportunity. Pulse did not happen during session. And they did not want to come back into session after Pulse. - NPR
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SHAPIRO: And so how did you spend this weekend?
MOSKOWITZ: This weekend's been difficult. It's been going to funerals, going to vigils, talking to students, talking to parents. It's been dealing with the next three weeks of session, trying to get something accomplished. If we don't get it done by March 9, we don't meet again until December after the 2018 elections. I'm attending funerals where people are screaming and cursing into the microphone based on their anger. They're looking at their teenage son or daughter in pine boxes, ready to be put in the ground, all because they sent their kid to school. That's the only thing that they did.
And I think to myself, I have a 4 year old. What if the shooter didn't go to Douglas? He went around the corner to my son's preschool. And what if he had gotten to my child? Would I decide to bury my son in his favorite pajamas? Would I take his favorite stuffed animal? These are the things that have been going through my head as I watch parents go through that identical exercise with their teenage child.
And I think to myself it has to be different. Washington is broken. Nothing's going to happen in Washington. But Tallahassee has three weeks. We have three weeks. We have a unique opportunity. Pulse did not happen during session. And they did not want to come back into session after Pulse. - NPR
Related: Marches, protests and walkouts planned
Parkland School Tragedy Survivors Heading to Tallahassee, Vocal in Push For Gun Laws
The students plan to hold a rally Wednesday in hopes that it will put pressure on the state's Republican-controlled Legislature to consider a sweeping package of gun-control laws, something some GOP lawmakers said Monday they would consider. Shortly after the shooting, several legislative leaders were taken on a tour of the school to see the damage first hand and they appeared shaken afterward.
"We are going to make sure that this doesn't happen,” Gonzalez said. “We are going to be the people who decide this change. It's not going to be anybody else. It's not going to be people further down the line, it's going to be us."
Gonzalez and the others who escaped the same terror that killed so many others at their own school want tougher background checks. They want state laws that would stop someone like 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz from legally buying an automatic rifle.
"It’s unbelievable and the fact that we are high school students of a generation that has grown up with this, I think that we don’t' want to continue watching something we've grown up with all our lives." Said Jaclyn Corin, who organized the bus trip to Tallahassee. - NBC Miami
The students plan to hold a rally Wednesday in hopes that it will put pressure on the state's Republican-controlled Legislature to consider a sweeping package of gun-control laws, something some GOP lawmakers said Monday they would consider. Shortly after the shooting, several legislative leaders were taken on a tour of the school to see the damage first hand and they appeared shaken afterward.
"We are going to make sure that this doesn't happen,” Gonzalez said. “We are going to be the people who decide this change. It's not going to be anybody else. It's not going to be people further down the line, it's going to be us."
Gonzalez and the others who escaped the same terror that killed so many others at their own school want tougher background checks. They want state laws that would stop someone like 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz from legally buying an automatic rifle.
"It’s unbelievable and the fact that we are high school students of a generation that has grown up with this, I think that we don’t' want to continue watching something we've grown up with all our lives." Said Jaclyn Corin, who organized the bus trip to Tallahassee. - NBC Miami
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